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PENDING  LEGISLATION,  1915 


A  Summary,  by  Subjects  and  Synopsis,  of  All 

Bills  Introduced  During  First  Half  of 

Forty-first  Session,  California 

Legislature. 


SAN    FRANCISCO: 

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689  Stevenson  Street 


PENDING  LEGISLATION,  1915 


A  Summary,  by  Subjects  and  Synopsis,  of  All 

Bills  Introduced  During  First  Half  of 

Forty-first  Session,  California 

Legislature. 


SAN    FRANCISCO: 

The  Recorder  Printing  and  Publishing  Company 

689  Stevenson  Street 


FOREWORD 


When  the  people  of  California,  in  1912,  adopted  the  double 
legislative  session  with  a  mid-session  recess  for  the  examina- 
tion and  discussion  of  measures  introduced,  "The  Recorder' 
conceived  and  issued  "Pending  Legislation,  1913,"  as  a  guid< 
to  the  measures  pending,  and  in  order  that  the  public  migh 
have  some  handy  reference  book  on  this  important  subject. 

Although  the  demand  for  this  work  was  in  no  way  in  pro- 
portion to  its  value,  it  has  been  thought  advisable,  in  th( 
absence  of  any  adequate  official  compendium,  to  issue  th( 
work  again,  which  accounts  for  its  appearance  at  this  time. 

In  its  preparation  it  was  necessary  to  examine  2,686  bills*— 
1,484  Assembly  and  1,202  Senate — and  78  Constitutional  Amend- 
ments— 41  Assembly  and   37   Senate — a   total  of  2,764  measures 

In  view  of  the  expense  and  labor  in  compiling  this  publica- 
tion, the  publishers*  "bespeak^ or*  jjt  a  larger  measure  of  public 
S'upport  than  was  "accorded  ttievlirijtjal  issue.  In  fact,  sue! 
support  is  eAsekhfia]  to*  insure  a  continuance  of  its  preparatior 
and  publication.   '"The  laborer  i^' Worthy"  of  his   hire." 

THE     EDITOR. 
San  Francisco,  February  20,  1915. 


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INDEX 


Amendments    to    Codes —  Page 

Civil   Code    14-34 

Code   of    Civil   Procedure 35-68 

Penal   Code    69-89 

Political    Code    90-129 

Amendments    to    Constitution 1-13 

Appropriations — 

Agricultural   Park    130 

Armories    130 

Claims,  County    131 

Claims,  Private    132 

Expositions    137 

Educational — 

California  Polytechnic   School    137 

State    Normal    School,    Chico 138 

Fresno    138 

Humboldt    138 

Los   Angeles    138 

San    Diego    139 

San   Francisco    140 

San   Jose    140 

Santa   Barbara    (Manual  Arts) 140 

University  of  California 141 

Free   Text   Books 143 

Highways    143 

Historic    Landmarks     146 

Monuments    146 

Miscellaneous     146 

National  Guard   149 

River   and   Harbor   Improvements 150 

State    Institutions — 

Adult  Blind,  Industrial  Home  for 151 

Deaf  and  Blind,  California  School  for 151 

Feeble  Minded,  Sonoma  State  Home  for 155 

Girls,    California    School   for 153 

State  Hospital,  Agnews    151 

State  Hospital,  Folsom    151 

State  Hospital,  Mendocino    152 

State  Hospital,  Norwalk    152 

State  Hospital,  Napa    153 

State  Hospital,  Southern  California    155 

State  Hospital,  Stockton    155 

Preston    School   of   Industry 154 

State  Prison,  Folsom    152 

State  Prison,  San   Quentin    T54 

Veterans'   Home    156 

Women's   Relief   Corps   Home 156 


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Whittier   State   School 156 

State    Offices   and    Depa  rtments 157 

General    Laws — 

Advertising   159 

Agriculture    159 

Animals,     Diseases    of     (see     Cattle,     Horses     and     Live- 
stock)      170 

Animals,    Trespassing    of 162 

Anti-Alien    Land     Law 162 

Architecture     163 

Asexualization    163 

Assessment     163 

Banking    163 

Barbers 164 

"Blue     Sky"     Law     (see    Investment     Companies,     Regu- 
lation of)    227 

Board  of  Health,   State 164 

Bonds    165 

Bonds,    Official,    Premium   on 165 

Brokers 165 

Building  and  Loan  Law 167 

Capital  and  Labor 168 

Cattle,    Horses   and   Livestock 170 

Cemeteries 173 

Charities   and    Correction 177 

Child    Labor    177 

Children     178 

Civil   Service   178 

Coal    179 

Collection  Agencies   181 

Commission   Merchants    181 

Common    Carriers     182 

Conservation    Commission    182 

Containers     183 

Contracts,     State     183 

Corporation   License   Tax 183 

County  Offices  and  Officers 184 

Day  of  Rest    184 

Dairies  and   Dairy  Products 185 

Deaf    and    Blind 188 

Defender,    Public    189 

Dentists    191 

Department   of   Engineering    204 

Detectives    196 

Educational    197 

Electricity    198 

Elections . . 198 

Elevators 201 

Embalmers 201 

Employment  Bureau,    State 202 


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Employment  Agencies,    private    203 . 

Engineering,    Department    of 204 

Estrays     207 

Firearms    207 

Food   Products,    Destruction   of 208 

Fish   and   Game,    Protection   of 208 

Flood   Control   Districts 211 

Forests  and  Forestry 211 

Franchises     213 

Fraternal   Benefit   Societies 213 

Gambling     213 

Harbor   Commissioners   of   San   Francisco 214 

Harbor    Districts     214 

Highways    214 

Horticulture    217 

Hospitals    and    Nurses 219 

Hotels    and    Lodging    Houses 219 

Immigration  and   Housing 220 

Indigent    Persons,    Orphans   and 273 

Industrial  Commission  and  Investigation 221 

Inferior    Courts    221 

Inheritance    Tax    222 

Initiative    and    Referendum 222 

Interest   Rate    222 

Insurance 223 

Investment    Companies,    Regulation    of 227 

Irrigation    229 

Juvenile     Court    Law 233 

Labor,    Capital   and 168 

Legal    Aid    235 

Legislative    Counsel    Bureau 237 

Libraries    237 

Liens  of  Material  Men,  Mechanics,  etc 237 

Lighting   Districts    238 

Liquors,    Sale    of 238 

Local    Option    239 

Los   Angeles   State   Building 240 

Maps,  Recording  of 241 

Markets   and    Marketing 241 

Marriage   and   Divorce 242 

Material  Men,   Mechanics,    etc.,   Liens   of 237 

'  McEnerney    Act    242 

Medical  Practice  Act 242 

Meetings'  of  Unincorporated   Societies,    How   Called 246 

Mines   and   Mining 247 

Miscellaneous — 

Animals,    Use    of  Live    for    Experimental    Purposes,    In 

vestigation    of    250 

Art   Commission,    Creating   State 252 


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Awards    of   Court   or   Judgments,    to    Provide    for   Pay- 
ment   of    256 

Bonded    Fiduciaries,     Deposit    of    Moneys    and    Assets 

Held    By    254-255 

Cigarettes    or    Cigarette    Papers,     Prohibiting    Sale    or 

Giving  Away  of    254 

Citizens,  to  Secure  Exclusive  Employment  of,  by  State, 

County  and   Municipal   Governments . 251 

Codes,    Providing    for    Printing    and    Binding    and    Dis- 
tribution  of,   by   State 251 

Company  Store,   Relating  to  Conducting  of 255 

Compensation  for  Persons  Arrested  But  Not  Convicted.  257 
Constitutional     Convention     of     1879,    Recognizing     and 

Establishing  Unpaid   Expenses   of,    etc 253 

Contracts    for    Exchange    of    Indemnity,    Denning    Cer- 
tain  Classes  of    254 

Contracts   for   Instalment   Payments    251 

County    Boundaries,    Alteration    of 253 

County  Government  Act,  Amending  Section  38   of 253 

County  Government  Act,   Amending  Section  15  of 254 

Deformed  or  Diseased  Human   Beings  or  Parts   There- 
of,  Prohibiting  Exposure   or  Exhibition   of 256 

Delinquents,   Care  and  Confinement  of 251 

Dining  Cars,  Use  of  as   Sleeping  Quarters,   Prohibited..   256 
Fences    and    Structures    Erected    to    Annoy,    Amending 

Section  1  of  Act  in  Relation  to 255 

Financial   Transactions   of   Counties,   Report   of 251 

Fraternities,    Oath-Bound,    Prohibiting 253 

Hedges,   Declaring,   to  be  Private  Nuisance 253 

Highway,     Permitting    Adjoining     Counties     to    Appro- 
priate  Money   for    Survey   for 256 

Historical     Material,     Local,     Creating     Commission     to 

Make   Survey   of 256 

Jails,   County,   etc.,   Regulation  of 251 

Kelp  Beds,  Declaring  to  be  Property  of  State  of  Cali- 
fornia       253 

Land   Information  Bureau,    State,    Creating 255 

Libel  and   Slander,    Concerning 257 

Music   Teaching,   to   Promote   Better   Condition   of 252 

Natural    Resources,    Creating   Department   of 251 

Packing    Houses    and    Other    Places    Where    Labor    is 

Employed,   Requiring  to  be   Comfortably  Heated 254 

Peace   Officers,    to  Prevent  Person  Against  Whom  Un- 
paid    Judgment     Pending     for     False     Imprisonment, 

from  Holding  Office   of 256 

Pilot   Commissioners,    San   Diego,  Amending  Section   14 

of  Act   Creating    252 

Planning   Commission,    State   Capitol,    Creating 255 

"PortS'mouth,"    U.    £>.    Ship,    Providing    for   Acceptance 
of  and  Repairs   Thereto,    etc 256 


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Prices,  to  Prevent  Discrimination  in 253 

Public    Work,    Requiring    to    be    Done    Under    Superin- 
tendent       252 

Purchasing   Department,    State,    Creating 254 

Railroad,    State,    on   The   Embarcadero,    San   Francisco, 

Providing   Passenger    Service    on 253 

Receiver,  Providing  for  Return  of  Money  Deposited  by.   256 
Reformatories,    State,    Relating    to    Arrests    by    Officers 

and    Employees    of    253 

San   Diego    Bay   Fund,    Transferring   Money    from    Dis- 
puted  Title   to   Lands  on,    to   General   Fund, 257 

Shingles,  Regulating  Sale  of 255 

Soldiers,   Sailors  and  Marines,  Relief  of 253 

Song,   State,  Designating  "I  Dive  You  California"   as. .   251 
Stockton    State   Hospital,    Providing  for   Sale   of   Prop- 
erty   of    253 

Submerged    Lands   on    San    Francisco   Water   Front,    to 

Provide  for  Appropriation  of  for  Aquatic   Sports 252 

Supervisors,    Boards   of,    Requiring   Publication   of   Pro- 
ceedings   of    255 

Transportation   Districts,    Creating 253 

Trees,  Requiring  Owner  of  to  Prevent  Injury  to  Prop- 
erty  of  Adjoining   Owner    254 

University      of      California,       Transferring      to      Land 

Acquired   as   Site  for  State   Reformatory 252 

Vacations    for    State    Employees    253 

Whittier  State   School,   Empowering  Board  of  Trustees 

of   to    Transfer  Water   Rights 255 

Motor   Vehicles,    Regulation    of 257 

Municipal    Corporations    26 1 

Municipal   Corporations   Act 269 

National  Guard   271 

Nurses   and    Nursing    272 

Officers,     Public     272 

Official    Bonds,    Premium    on 165 

Oil    and    Gas 273 

Orphans   and  Indigent   Persons 272 

Parks  and   Parkways   274 

Parole   and   Pardon    275 

Pawnbrokers    (see    Brokers)     165 

Pensions   275 

Personal  Loan  Brokers    (see   Brokers) 165 

Pharmacy    277 

Poisons 277 

Prisons    and   Prisoners    278 

Premium  on  Official  Bonds 165 

Protection    Districts    278 

Produce    Exchange     Commission 279 

Public  Buildings    280 

Public  Defender    189 


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Public  Health   and    Sanitation 280 

Public  Improvements    283 

Public  Lands    284 

Public  Money    285 

Public   Officers   286 

Public  Utilities,   Acquisition    of 287 

Public  Utility   Districts    287 

Pure  Food   and   Drug   Act 287 

Pure  Products    288 

Racing    289 

Railroad   Commission    290 

Railroads    292 

Real   Estate   Brokers,    Regulation   of    (see    Brokers) 292 

Reclamation    and    Drainage    293 

Recreation     296 

River    Improvement     296 

.  Rural    Credits    297 

Salt  Marsh  and   Tide   Lands,   Cession  and  Recession  of..   301 

Sanitary   Districts    302 

Schools     302 

Sewer    Districts     304 

Ship    Subsidy    304 

State   Board   of   Health 164 

Steam    Boilers    and    Engineering 304 

Street   Improvement    305 

Suits  Against   State    310 

Superior    Courts    311 

Taxation    311 

Teachers    313 

Tenement    Houses     314 

Theater  Tickets,    to   Prevent   Fraud   in   Sale  of 314 

Trade     Marks     314 

Tuberculosis     315 

Unemployment     316 

Unincorporated  Societies,  Meetings  of,  How  Called .. .   246 

Usury   315 

Vaccination    316 

Veterans,     War     317 

Vital    Statistics     317 

Vocational    Schools    (see   Educational) 197 

Voters   and   Voting    317 

Wage    Brokers    (see    Brokers) 166 

Wages  and  Hours    •   318 

Water  Districts    320 

Water  and    Water    Rights 322 

Weeds,   Noxious,   Propagation  of 323 

Weights   and   Measures 323 

Women    and    Children 324 

Workmen's    Compensation   Act 325 


PENDING  LEGISLATION,  1915 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION 


ARTICLE    I. 
Declaration    of    Rights. 

A.  C.  A.  29.  Canepa.  Adding  Section  liy2  to  Article  I  of 
the  Constitution,  providing  that  the  value,  use  or  earning 
capacity  of  property  assessed  and  taxed  shall  not  be  destroyed 
or  impaired  by  operation  of  any  law  without  just  compensa- 
tion; and  exacting  a  bond  for  the  protection  of  property  from 
damages  by  litigation  affecting  property,  and  providing  for 
the  indemnifying  of  those  who  lose  lawful  employment  by  or 
through  a  law,  or  the  operation  of  any  law. 

S.  C.  A.  29.     Finn.     Identical  with  A.  C.  A.  29.     Canepa. 

A.  C.  A.  40.  Bruck.  Adding  Section  UV2  to  Article  I  of 
the  Constitution,  providing  that  no  law  or  constitutional 
amendment  which  shall  damage,  injure,  destroy  the  value  of 
or  prevent  the  use  of  any  vineyard,  wine  cellar,  hop  field, 
brewery,  distillery  or  other  property  used  in  manufacturing, 
producing  or  shipping  wine,  beer,  malt  or  distilled  liquors,  shall 
take  effect  until  just  compensation  shall  have  been  first  made 
to  or  paid  into  court  for  the  owner. 

A.  C.  A.  3.  Downing.  Adding  Section  26  to  Article  I  of  the 
Constitution,  relating  to  human  rights  and  providing  that  the 
State  shall  engage  in  certain  industries  to  give  employment 
to  citizens. 

Provides  that  the  State,  in  order  that  its  citizens  may  ob- 
tain steady  employment,  shall  engage  in  such  work  of  internal 
improvement,  and  shall  establish,  own  and  control  such  farms, 
factories,  workshops  and  such  other  industries  or  means  of 
employment  as  the  Legislature  or  people  may  designate  and 
shall  distribute,  sell  or  supply  the  product  to  the  people,  the 
profits  to  be  employed  in  the  extension,  betterment  and  mainte- 
nance thereof;  the  State  may  also  buy  or  condemn  land,  im- 
prove it  and  lease  it  to  actual  farmers  on  easy  terms,  but 
such  lands   shall   never   be   sold   absolutely. 

A.  C.  A.  28.  Hayes.  Adding  Section  26  to  Article  I  of 
the  Constitution,  declaring  the  right  of  the  State  of  California 
and  each  municipal  corporation  therein  to  engage  in  industrial 
pursuits. 

S.  C.  A.  24.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.   C.  A.   28.     Hayes. 


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ARTICLE   II. 
Right   of   Suffrage. 

A.  C.  A.  6.  Downing.  Amending-  Section  1  of  Article  II  of 
the  Constitution,   extending*  the  right  of  suffrage. 

Provides  that  an  elector  may  vote  in  this  State  who  has 
been  in  the  State  90  days  and  in  the  county  60  days  next  pre- 
ceding the  election,  instead  of  one  year  and  90  days  as  at  pres- 
ent; and  adds  a  provision  that  any  duly  qualified  elector  shall 
be  deemed  for  purposes  of  voting  to  be  a  resident  of  the  precinct 
in  which  registered  for  30  days  after  removal  therefrom  if 
removal  was  within  the  county. 

A.  C.  A.  39.  Browne.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  II  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  right  of  suffrage. 

Reduces  the  age  limit  for  voting  purposes  from  21  to  18 
years. 

S.  C.  A.  5.  Ballard.  Adding  Section  7  to  Article  II  of  the 
Constitution,  in  relation  to  the  qualification  of  electors  to  vote 
on  any  question  of  incurring  any  bonded  indebtedness  of  this 
State  or  of  any  county,  city  and  county,  municipality  or  other 
political   subdivision  of   this   State. 

Provides  that  no  elector  shall  vote  at  any  bond  election 
unless  he  be  owner  of  property  liable  to  be  taxed  for  payment 
of  indebtedness  created  by  such  bonds  and  assessed  to  him 
on  last  assessment  roll. 

ARTICLE    IV. 
Legislative    Department. 

S.  C.  A.  3.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  IV  of  the 
Constitution,  relating  to  legislative  powers,  and  reserving  to 
the  people  of  the  State  of  California  the  power  to  propose 
laws,  statutes  and  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and  to 
enact  the  same  at  the  polls,  independent  of  the  Legislature, 
and  also  reserving  to  the  people  of  the  State  of  California  the 
power  to  approve  or  reject  at  the  polls  any  Act  or  section  or 
part  of  any  Act  of  the  Legislature. 

Provides  for  submission  of  initiative  petitions  to  the  electors 
at  the  next  general  election  occurring  200  days  subsequent  to 
presentation  of  petition  instead  of  90  days  as  at  present. 

S.  C.  A.  22.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  IV  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  legislative  powers,  and  reserving 
to  the  people  of  the  State  of  California  the  power  to  propose 
laws,  statutes  and  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and  to 
enact  the  same  at  the  polls,  independent  of  the  Legislature,  and 
also  reserving  to  the  people  of  the  State  of  California  the 
power  to  approve  or  reject  at  the  polls  any  Act  or  section  or 
part  of  any  Act  of  the  Legislature. 

A.    C.   A.   32.     Ashley.     Amending   Section   1   of  Article  IV  of 


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the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  legislative  power  reserved  to 
the  people  known  as  the  initiative  and  referendum. 

The  proposed  amendments  not  only  safeguard  the  initiative, 
referendum  and  recall,  but  it  would  be  possible  for  a  single 
elector  to  have  an  initiative  petition  made  available  for  signa- 
tures in  each  county  in  the  State  without  cost  to  him. 

Soliciting  signatures  is  eliminated,  only  qualified  electors 
being  permitted  to  sign  petitions,  which  are  to  be  filed  with 
county  clerks  or  registrars  of  voters  and  kept  available  for 
examination  and  signature  during  regular  office  hours.  It  is 
also  provided  that  petitions  shall  be  kept  available  for  signa- 
tures' at  all  branch  offices  of  clerks,  and  also  that  itinerant 
registration  deputies  shall  carry  with  them  copies  of  any 
petition.  All  clerks  and  deputies  are  forbidden  to  express  any 
opinion  favoring  or  opposing  any  proposed  act,  statute  or 
amendment  to  the  constitution  when  informing  an  elector 
that  a  certain  petition  is  available  for  signature. 

The  changes  proposed  would  allow  any  elector  or  group  of 
electors  to  propose  any  act  or  statute  merely  by  filing  the 
proposition  with  any  county  clerk  or  registrar.  Automatically 
it  becomes  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  State  to  initiate  the 
identical  measure  in  all  other  counties  of  the  State,  and  the 
electorate  is  notified  by  means  of  advertisements  in  news- 
papers that   such  a  petition  is  available  for  signature. 

The  percentages  required  to  invoke  the  initiative,  referen- 
dum and  recall  are  left  the  same  as<  at  present — 8  per  cent  for 
initiative  petitions,  5  per  cent  for  referendum  petitions,  and 
12  per  cent  for  recall  petitions,  or  20  per  cent  for  the  recall  of 
a   State  officer. 

S.  C.  A.  16.  Campbell.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6, 
7,  8,  9,  10,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  19  and  23  of  Article  IV  of  the 
Constitution,    relating   to   the   legislative   department. 

Provides  for  a  single  chamber  Legislature  of  40  members, 
to  be  elected  for  a  term  of  four  years,  half  every  two  years, 
to  remain  in  session  for  one  year.  Most  of  the  changes  are 
verbal  for  the  purpose  of  making  the  sections  conform  to  the 
plan  for  a   single  chamber. 

A.  C.  A.  38.  Rigdon.  Identical  with  S.  C.  A.  16.  Campbell, 
x  A.  C.  A.  8.  Rodgers.  Amending  Section  2  of  Article  IV  of 
the   Constitution,    relating   to    sessions   of   the   Legislature. 

Retains  the  "bifurcated"  session,  but  reduces  the  period  of 
the  first  session  to  20  days  and  of  the  recess  to  10  days. 

S.  C.  A.  14.  Owens.  Amending  Section  2  of  Article  IV  of  the 
Constitution,   relating  to   sessions  of   the   Legislature. 

Restores  this  section  to  the  same  language  as  prior  to  the 
amendment  of  1911,  creating  the  so-called  "bifurcated"  ses- 
sion, which  is  sought  to  be  abolished. 

A.   C.   A.   7.     Brown,   H.  W.     Amending  Section  16  of  Article 


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IV  of  the  Constitution,  relative  to  approval  of  bills  by  the 
Governor  and  the  veto  power. 

Provides,  in  case  of  measures  before  the  Governor  during 
the  30  day  period  following  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature 
and  which,  unless  signed,  are  of  no  effect,  that  the  Governor 
shall  deposit  and  file  such  bills  as  he  disapproves,  with  his 
objections  thereto,  with  the  Secretary  of  State,  who  shall 
return  them  to  the  house  in  which  they  originated  at  the  next 
session  of  the  Legislature,  where  they  shall  be  reconsidered 
as  if  returned  by  the  Governor  at  the  previous  session;  but  no 
bill  shall  be  presented  to  the  Governor  within  two  days  next 
previous  to  final  adjournment  of  Legislature. 

A.  C.  A.  17.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  20  of  Article 
IV  of  the  Constitution,  relative  to  eligibility  to  hold  office. 

Adds  a  provision  that  "no  person  holding  any  lucrative 
office  under  State,  county  or  municipal  jurisdiction  shall  be 
eligible  to  a  seat  in  the  Senate  or  Assembly  of  this  State,  nor 
shall  any  member  elected  to  either  branch  of  the  Legislature 
be  appointed  to  any  lucrative  office  in  the  State  during  the 
term  for  which  he  was  elected." 

A.  C.  A.  41.  Avey.  Amending  Section  22  of  Article  IV  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  how  money  may  be  appropriated 
and  drawn  from  the  State  Treasury. 

Omits  all  that  portion  relating  to  the  Panama-Pacific  Inter- 
national Exposition  fund. 

S.  C.  A.  8.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  23  of  Article  IV  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  officers,  employees  and  attaches 
of  the  Legislature. 

Increases  the  amount  now  allowed  for  attaches  from  $500 
to  $650  for  regular  sessions,  and  from  $200  to  $300  for  extra 
sessions,  on  the  basis  of  $250  per  day  for  the  Senate  and  $400 
per  day  for  the  Assembly  for  regular,  and  $100  per  day  for 
the  Senate  and  $200  per  day  for  the  Assembly  for  extra  ses- 
sions. An  amendment  similar  to  this  was  defeated  at  the 
1913  general  election. 

S.  C.  A.  17.  Brown.  Amending  Section  31  of  Article  IV  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  loan  by  the  State  of  its 
credit  to  public  or  private  corporations. 

Adds  a  provision  that  nothing  in  this  or  any  section  of  the 
Constitution  shall  prevent  the  Legislature  from  establishing  a 
trust  fund  for  giving  and  creating  credit  in  aid  of  agriculture, 
authorizing  the  trustees  to  issue  bonds  on  collateral  securities 
of  this  fund,  and  guaranteeing  on  behalf  of  the  State  the 
principal  and  interest  of  such  bonds;  and  validating  any  Acts 
of  the  Legislature  passed  within  the  contemplation  of  this 
proviso;   and  validating  the   "Land   Settlement  Act." 

A.  C.  A.  36.  Schmitt.  Adding  Section  37  to  Article  IV  of 
the  Constitution,   relating  to  limiting  the  powers  of  the  Legis- 


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lature  to  enact  police  regulations  for  the  State  as  a  whole  by 
restricting-  the  rights  of  the  people  of  the  State  as  a  whole 
from  initiating  such  police  regulations,  and  placing  the  power 
for  the  enactment  of  such  police  regulations  in  the  several 
counties   of   the   State. 

ARTICLE    V. 
Executive    Department. 

S.  C.  A.  IS.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  17  of  Article  V 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  election  and  term  of 
office  of  a  Secretary  of  State,  a  Controller,  a  Treasurer,  an 
Attorney-General  and  a  Surveyor-General  and  also  amending 
Section  19  of  Article  V  of  the  said  Constitution,  relating  to 
the  compensation  of  the  Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor,  Sec- 
retary of  S'tate,  Controller,  Treasurer,  Attorney-General  and 
Surveyor-General. 

Provides  (Sec.  17,  Art.  V)  for  the  appointment  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  Treasurer  and  Surveyor-General  by  the  Gov- 
ernor, to  hold  office  at  his  pleasure;  and  (Sec.  19,  Art.  V)  in- 
cludes the  words   "or  appointed." 

ARTICLE    VI. 
Judicial    Department. 

A.  C.  A.  5.  Downing.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  VI  of 
the   Constitution,    relating   to   the   judicial   powers. 

Adds  a  provision  that  no  court  shall  have  power  to  declare 
unconstitutional  any  law  enacted  by  the  Legislature  or  by  the 
people  directly,  the  power  to  determine  the  constitutionality 
of  laws  being  hereby  vested  in   the   lawmakers. 

A.  C.  A.  26.  Fish.  Adding  Section  1  to  Article  VI  of  the 
Constitution,  relating  to  the  method  of  selection  of  court  com- 
missioners, of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  Justices  of 
the  District  Courts  of  Appeal,  Judges  of  the  Superior  Courts, 
and  Justices  of  the  Peace. 

Creates  a  court  commission  for  the  appointment  of  all 
judges  (including  justices  of  the  peace)  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Senate;  and  to  hear  and  determine  all  charges 
and  complaints  of  misconduct  of  any  judicial  officer,  with 
power  of  removal. 

A.  C.  A.  9.  Spengler.  Amending  Section  3  of  Article  VI  of 
the  Constitution,  relative  to  terms  of  Supereme  Court  Justices. 

Reduces  the  term  to  six  years,  but  provides  that  any  justice 
in  office  when  the  amendment  takes  effect  shall  serve  out  the 
term  for  which  he  was  elected. 

S.  C.  A.  10.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  4  of  Article  VI 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Supreme 
Court  and  District  Courts  of  Appeal. 


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Adds  a  provision  to  the  paragraph  relating  to  the  appoint- 
ment of  justices  pro  tempore  of  the  District  Courts  of  Appeal 
to  the  effect  that  "whenever  a  justice  pro  tempore  is  selected, 
such  justice  may  act  in  all  causes  and  matters  that  may  come 
before  the  court  during  the  time  designated  in  the  minute 
order  providing  for  his  selection.  In  the  event  the  presiding 
justice  of  the  court  shall  be  disqualified  or  unable  to  act,  the 
justice  of  the  court  who  is  the  senior  in  point  of  the  length 
of  his  service  shall  act  as  presiding  justice." 

A.  C.  A.  21.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  4^4  to  Article  VI 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  powers  of  courts  to  declare 
laws  unconstitutional. 

Provides  that  no  Act  of  the  Legislature  approved  by  the 
Governor  and  not  vetoed  by  the  people  by  referendum,  and  no 
initiative  measure,  and  no  act,  law  or  ordinance  of  any  political 
subdivision  of  the  State  adopted  pursuant  to  its  organic  law 
and  to  this  Constitution,  shall  be  declared  void  in  whole  or 
in  part  as  contravening  the  Constitution  of  the  State  unless 
all  but  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  concur;  the  judge 
before  whom  a  case  is  pending  involving  constitutionality  shall, 
upon  probable  cause,  certify  same  to  the  Supreme  Court, 
which  shall  give  it  a  speedy  hearing  and  render  a  decision 
thereon   within   90   days. 

S.  C.  A.  20.     Flaherty.     Identical  with  A.   C.  A.   21.    Gebhart. 

A.  C.  A.  18.  Mouser.  Adding  Section  4a  to  Article  VI 
of  the  Constitution,  in  relation  to  the  judicial  department. 

Provides  that  if  serious  error  of  law  has  occurred  at  any 
stage  of  proceedings  in  any  civil  or  criminal  case  in  the 
Superior  Court,  manifestly  prejudicial  to  the  rights  of  a  party 
thereto,  that  party  may  have  a  writ  of  error  to  court  having 
appellate  jurisdiction;  such  writs  shall  be  made  returnable 
within  30  days  and  receive  speedy  hearing;  petition  for  writ 
of  error  shall  be  bar  to  appeal;  it  must  be  filed  within  10  days 
after  verdict  or  written  notice  of  judgment,  and  time  within 
which  to  file  petition  shall  not  be  extended.  Refusal  to  grant 
new  trial  or  motion  in  arrest  of  judgment  shall  not  constitute 
ground   for  writ   of  error. 

S.   C.  A.  23.     Flaherty.     Identical  with  A.   C.   A.   18.     Mouser. 

A.  C.  A.  25.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  6  of  Article 
VI  of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  Superior  Courts. 

Provides  for  the  appointment  of  judges  of  the  Superior  Court 
by  the  Governor,  subject  to  confirmation  by  a  committee  on 
appointments,  to  consist  of  the  Chief  Justice  and  Associate 
Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  of  the  District  Court  of 
Appeal  of  the  district  in  which  such  Superior  Court  is  located. 

S.  C.  A.  2.  Finn.  Adding  Section  6%  to  Article  VI  of  the 
Constitution,  relating  to  the  term  of  Judges  of  the  Superior 
Court. 


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Provides  that  term  shall  be  twelve  years  from  and  after 
the  first  Monday  of  January  next  succeeding  their  election; 
term  of  all  judges  holding  office  on  second  Monday  of  January, 
1917,  shall  be  twelve  years  from  and  after  first  Monday  of 
January  next  succeeding  the  date  on  which  they  were  elected 
except  in  case  of  judge  elected  for  remainder  of  unexpired 
term,  in  which  case  judge  shall  hold  office  until  expiration  of 
a  term  of  twelve  years  from  and  after  first  Monday  of  January 
next  succeeding  date  on  which  judge  was  elected  to  hold  office 
for  full  term  of  which  such  remainder  of  unexpired  term  is 
part. 

A.  C.  A.  2.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.  C.  A.  2.     Finn. 

S.  C.  A.  11.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  10^  to  Article  VI 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  length  of  time  a  person 
appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  Justice  of  the  District  Court  of  Appeal  or 
Judge  of  a  Superior  Court  shall  hold  office. 

Provides  that  a  person  appointed  by  the  Governor  to  fill  a 
vacancy  in  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  or  of 
the  District  Court  of  Appeal,  or  judge  of  the  Superior  Court, 
where  the  term  fixed  by  law  of  the  person  whose  place  is  so 
filled  expires  on  the  first  Monday  in  January  after  the  next 
succeeding  general  election,  shall  hold  office  for  the  remainder 
of   the   unexpired   term. 

A.  C.  A.  14.  Kennedy.  Adding  Section  11  y2  to  Article  VI 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  election,  appointment, 
duties,  salaries,  responsibilities,  fees  and  perquisites  of  office, 
tenure  and  term  of  office  of  judges  of  such  inferior  courts  as 
the  Legislature  may  establish,  or  has  established  in  any  town- 
ship, district,  incorporated  city,  or  town,  county  or  city  and 
county,  in  pursuance  of  Sections  1  and  11  of  said  Article 
VI,    except   police  judges   and   judges   of  municipal   courts. 

Fixes  the  term  of  such  judges  at  eight  years;  compensation 
to  be  such  salary  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  Legislature,  which 
shall  also  fix  fees  to  be  charged;  no  judge  shall  draw  any 
salary  unless  he  make  affidavit  that  no  case  remains  pending 
and  undecided  before  him  that  has  been  submitted  for  a 
period  of  30  days,  or  such  shorter  time  as  may  be  fixed  by  the 
Legislature. 

S.  C.  A.  9.     Beban.     Identical  with  A.  C.  A.  14.    Kennedy. 

S.  C.  A.  26.  Slater.  Amending  Section  17  of  Article  VI  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  salaries  of  justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court  and  District  Courts  of  Appeal,  and  of  judges  of  the 
Superior   Court. 

Change  proposed  is  merely  verbal. 

A.  C.  A.  16.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  23  of  Article 
VI  of  the  Constitution,  relative  to  the  eligibility  of  justices 
and  judges. 


8  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Adds:  "And  shall  have  been  engaged  in  the  active  practice 
of  law  within  the  State  of  California  for  a  period  of  not  less 
than  10  years." 

S.  C.  A.  1.  Chandler.  Adding  Section  26  to  Article  VI  of 
the  Constitution,  relative  to  the  method  of  selecting  the  Jus- 
tices of  the  Supreme  Court,  Justices  of  the  District  Courts  of 
Appeal  and  Judges  of  the  Superior  Courts. 

Briefly   this   amendment   provides: 

1.  Appointment  of  all  Superior  Judges  and  Justices  of  the 
Appellate  and  Supreme  Courts  by  the  Governor. 

2.  Confirmation  by  the  people  of  all  appointments  made  by 
the  Governor  at  general  elections  following  the  appointment. 

3.  The  term  of  office  of  Superior  Judges  to  be  for  six  years, 
and  that  of  Justices  of  Appellate  and  Supreme  Courts  for 
twelve  years. 

4.  The  Governor  to  announce  his  appointments  of  judges 
and  justices  in  July  preceding  the  general  election  prior  to  the 
expiration   of  the  judicial   terms   on   December   31. 

5.  ,  Vacancies  occurring  through  death,  resignation  or  recall, 
to  be  filled  by  the  Governor  in  much  the  same  manner  as 
vacancies  are  now  filled,  but  appointments  to  be  made  follow- 
ing completion  of  unexpired  terms  filled  in  this  manner,  to  be 
subject  to  the  confirmation  of  the  people. 

ARTICLE    IX. 
Education 

S.  C.  A.  12.  Jones.  Amending  Section  2  of  Article  IX  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  election  and  salary  of  a 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  and  repealing  Section 
10  of  Article  XXII  of  said  Constitution,  relating  to  the  term 
of  officers  first  elected  under  the  Constitution  and  also  to  the 
election  and  term  of  office  of  the  successors  of  such  officers 
and  also  to  the  election  of  judicial  officers  and  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction. 

Provides  (Sec.  2,  Art.  IX)  that  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion, to  hold  office  at  its  pleasure,  and  receive  such  salary  as 
may   be   fixed   by  the   Legislature. 

S.  C.  A.  15.  Hans.  Amending  Section  7  of  Article  IX  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  free  text  books  in  the  elementary 
and  secondary   schools  of   the   State. 

Provides  that  the  Legislature  shall  provide  for  the  election 
of  a  State  Eoard  of  Education  which  shall  compile  or  cause 
to  be  compiled  text  books  for  free  distribution  to  all  pupils  in 
day  and  evening  elementary  and  secondary  schools  through- 
out the  State. 

A.  C.  A.  23.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  8  of  Article  IX  of 
the    Constitution,    relating    to    the    prohibition    of    the    use    of 


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public  money  for  sectarian  or  denominational  schools  and  pro- 
hibiting the  teaching  of  denominational  or  sectarian  doctrines 
in  public  schools. 

Adds  a  provision  authorizing  the  Governor  to  appoint  a  com- 
mission of  three  members,  one  Protestant,  one  Roman  Catholic 
and  one  Jew,  to  compile  from  the  Bible  and  New  Testament 
such  selections  as  they  may  unanimously  agree  upon  to  be 
incorporated  into  a  text  book  for  use  in  the  public  schools, 
and  to  designate  the  manner  in  which  said  selections  shall  be 
taught. 

A.  C.  A.  24.  Dennett.  Adding  Section  SV2  to  Article  IX 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  Bible  in  public  schools. 

Provides  that  the  Bible  shall  not  be  deemed  a  sectarian 
book,  and  shall  not  be  excluded  from  the  public  schools,  and 
authorizing  the  board  of  trustees  or  other  governing  body  of 
any  school  to  require  it  to  be  read  in  school  without  sectarian 
comment.  No  pupil  shall  be  required  to  read  it  or  to  be 
present  during  the  reading  thereof  contrary  to  wish  of  parent, 
guardian  or  other  person  having  him  in  charge. 

S.  C  A.  33.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  16%  of  Article  IX 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  deposit  of  public  funds  in  banks. 

Provides  that  no  deposit  shall  at  any  one  time  exceed  85 
per  cent  of  the  paid  up  capital  stock  of  such  depository  bank 
or  banks,   instead  of  50  per  cent  as  at  present. 

ARTICLE    X. 
State    Institutions  and   Public   Buildings. 

S.  C.  A.  35.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  X 
of  the  Constitution,  so  as  to  provide  for  State  institutions 
and  the  maintenance  of  prisoners,  insane,  delinquents,  depend- 
ents and  other  wards  of  the  State,  and  to  repeal  Sections  2, 
3,  4  and  5  of  Article  X  of  the  Constitution  relating  to  the 
powers  and  duties  of  the  State  Board  of  Prison  Directors  and 
officers  of  the  prisons. 

A.  C.  A.  4.  Mouser.  Adding  Sections  7  and  8  to  Article  X 
of  the   Constitution,   relating   to   indeterminate   sentence. 

Provides  (Sec.  7)  that  the  Legislature  shall  by  law  provide 
for  indeterminate  sentences  of  imprisonment  for  persons  con- 
victed of  crime  and  shall  (Sec.  8)  provide  for  custody,  control, 
care,  parole,  release  and  discharge  of  all  prisoners  committed 
under  indeterminate   sentences. 

ARTICLE    XI. 
Counties,    Cities   and    Towns. 
A.    C.    A.    27.      Prendergast.      Adding    Section    6%    to    Article 
XI  of  the   Constitution,    relating   to   the   imposition   of  licenses 
and  license  fees. 


10  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Prohibits  any  political  subdivision  of  the  State  from  impos- 
ing- a  higher,  different  or  other  license  fee  upon  non-residents 
doing  business  within  their  limits  than  is  imposed  upon  resi- 
dents. Licenses  shall  be  issued  for  such  period  as  parties 
desiring  them  shall  request  and  fees  shall  be  proportionate  to 
length  of  time  for  which  license  given,  provided  no  license 
need  be  issued  for  less  than  five  days. 

•S.  C.  A.  28.     Finn.     Identical  with  A.   C.  A.   27.     Prendergast. 

g.  C.  A.  25-  Breed.  Amending  Section  7%  of  Article  XI  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  charters  of  counties  and  amend- 
ments  to   such   charters  and   to   the   surrender   thereof. 

A.  C.  A.  34.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.   C.  A.   25.     Breed. 

A.  C.  A.  1.  Cary.  Adding  Section  UV2  to  Article  XI  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  creation,  organization,  duties 
and  powers  of  a  commission  to  be  known  as  the  fruit  commis- 
sion of  the  State  of  California. 

Creates  a  commission  of  three  members,  to  be  appointed  by 
the  Governor  for  term  of  four  years,  this  commission  to  hold 
public  hearings  and  after  such  hearings  to  "fix  or  change 
standards  of  quality,  of  size,  of  color,  of  percentage  of  sugar, 
and  of  package,  of  all  fruits,  nuts  and  vegetables  grown  in 
the  said  State  and  said  commission  shall  prescribe  the  proper 
labels  for  designating  standards.  The  commission  is  also 
empowered  to  inspect  or  provide  for  inspection  of  all  fruits, 
nuts  and  vegetables  and  may  forbid  sale  thereof  if  not  up  to 
standard. 

S.  C.  A.  19.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  16%  of  Article  XI 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  deposit  of  moneys  belonging 
to  the  State  or  to  any  county  or  municipality  within  the  State 
in  any  bank  or  banks. 

Provides  that  money  shall  be  so  deposited  pursuant  to  any 
law  adopted  by  the  people  under  the  initiative  or  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  each  house  of  the  Legislature  and  approved  by 
the  Governor  and  subject  to  referendum;  laws  now  governing 
deposit  of  money  shall  continue  in  force  until  such  laws  shall 
be  amended,  changed  or  repealed  as  in  this  section  authorized. 
S.  C.  A.  37.  Butler.  Amending  Section  19  of  Article  XI  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  operation  of  public  utilities 
by  municipal  corporations. 

Adds  provision  that  whenever  a  franchise  is  granted  by  a 
municipal  corporation  to  any  person  to  establish,  equip,  main- 
tain or  operate  any  public  utility,  the  rates  thereof  shall  at 
all  times  be  subject  to  be  fixed  and  regulated  in  the  manner 
provided  by  law. 

S.  C.  A.  27.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  20  to  Article  XI  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  taking  of  property  for  public 
use  and  additional  property  in  excess  thereof,  and  for  the  pay- 
ment therefor. 


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This  is  the  so-called  "excess  condemnation"  amendment  de- 
feated at  the  last  general  election. 

ARTICLE    XII. 
Corporations. 

S.  C.  A.  6.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  3  of  Article  XII  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  liability  of  stockholders  in 
corporations  and  joint  stock  companies  and  to  the  liability 
of  directors  and  trustees  thereof. 

Provides  that  stockholders  shall  be  liable  to  the  amount  of 
the  par  value  of  the  stock  or  shares  owned  by  them  in  the 
corporation;  and  omits  the  last  paragraph  exempting  exposi- 
tion  stockholders. 

A.   C.  A.   10.     Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.   C.  A.   6.     Ballard. 

A.  C.  A.  37.  S"chmitt.  Adding  Section  23b  to  Article  XII 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  public  utilities,  their  super- 
vision and   regulation. 

Declares  all  public  utilities  operated  by  any  political  sub- 
division of  the  State  to  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  the 
Public  Utilities  Act,  and  within  the  jurisdiction,  control  and 
regulation   of   the   Railroad   Commission. 

ARTICLE    XIII. 
Revenue   and    Taxation. 

A.  C.  A.  19.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  lb  to  Article  XIII 
of  the  Constitution,  exempting  all  motor  vehicles  upon  which 
a   motor  vehicle   tax   is   paid    from   personal   property   taxation. 

A.  C.  A.  15.  Rominger.  Amending  Section  1%  of  Article 
XIII  of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  exemption  of  churches 
from  taxation. 

Includes  buildings  and  property  "for  social  activities  con- 
ducted by  the  association  using  said  property  for  such  wor- 
ship." 

S.  C.  A.  4.  Duncan.  Adding  Section  5  to  Article  XIII  of 
the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  exemption  from  ad  valorem 
taxation  of  certain  vehicles  when  the  same  shall  pay  certain 
license   or   registration    fees. 

A.  C.  A.  22.  Rodgers.  Adding  Section  5  to  Article  XIII  of 
the  Constitution,  exempting  automobiles,  motor  vehicles  and 
motorcycles  from  taxation,  except  for  the  State  purposes 
enumerated   in   the   Motor  Vehicle   Act. 

A.  C.  A.  20.  Gelder.  Adding  Section  8%  to  Article  XIII  of 
the    Constitution,    relating    to    revenue    and    taxation. 

This  is  the  "Home  Rule  in  Taxation"  amendment  defeated 
at  the  last  general  election. 

S.  C.  A.  18.     Duncan.     Identical   with  A.    C.   A.    20.     Gelder. 

S.-C.  A.  31.     Thompson.     Amending  Section  9  of  Article  XIII 


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of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  State  and  county  boards  of 
equalization  and  to  the  assessment  of  taxable  property  in  the 
State,  and  creating  a  State  tax  commission  and  denning  its 
powers  and  duties,  and  the  powers  of  the  Legislature  relative 
to  assessment  and  taxation. 

A.  C.  A.  31.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  10  of  Article  XIII, 
adding  Section  10  to  Article  XI  and  repealing  Section  14  of 
Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution,  all  relating  to  revenue  and 
taxation. 

Provides  (Sec.  10,  Art.  XIII)  that  franchise,  roadway,  road- 
bed, rails  and  rolling  stock  of  all  railroads  operated  in  more 
than  one  county  shall  be  assessed  by  State  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion at  actual  value  and  apportioned  to  counties,  cities  and 
counties,  cities,  townships  or  districts  in  which  located  in  pro- 
portion to  mileage;  and  (Sec.  10,  Art.  XI)  that  no  political 
subdivision  or  its  inhabitants  or  property  therein  shall  be 
released  or  discharged  from  its  or  their  proportionate  share 
of  taxes  to  be  levied  for  State  purposes  nor  shall  commutation 
of 'taxes  be  authorized  in  any  form  whatsoever. 

A.  C.  A.  12.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  lO1^  of  Article  XIII 
of  the  Constitution,  relative  to  the  exemption  of  personal 
property. 

Increases  the  exemption  to  $500. 

A.  C.  A.  11.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Adding  Section  12  to  Article 
XIII  of  the  Constitution,  providing  for  the  assessment,  levy  and 
collection  of  a  tax  for  the  care  and  support  of  orphans  and 
half-orphans   and   dependent   children. 

Provides  for  the  annual  levy  and  collection  of  a  special  tax 
of  not  to  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar  as  an  "orphan  fund," 
to  be  expended  under  the  exclusive  control  of  the  State  for 
the  care  and  support  of  orphans,  half -orphans  and  dependent 
children. 

S.  C.  A.  36.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  12  of  Article  XIII 
of  the  Constitution,  relative  to  poll  tax. 

Restores  the  section  to  the  same  form  as  before  amendment 
abolishing  the  poll  tax. 

A.  C.  A.  35.  Phelps.  Amending  Section  14  of  Article  XIII 
of  the  Constitution,   relating  to  revenue  and   taxation. 

S.  C.  A.  30.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  15  to  Article  XIII  of 
the  Constitution,  authorizing  and  empowering  the  Legis- 
lature, at  its  forty-second  session,  to  revise,  amend  or 
annul  the  provisions  of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Con- 
stitution, relative  to  the  separation  of  State  and  local  taxation 
of  public  service  and  other   corporations. 

ARTICLE    XIV. 
Water   and    Water    Rights. 
A.  C.  A.  30.     Sisson.     Adding  Section  3  to  Article  XIV  of  the 


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Constitution,  creating  a  river  control  commission,  providing 
for  its  appointment,  defining  its  powers  and  duties  and  con- 
ferring jurisdiction  upon  such  commission  to  hear  and  deter- 
mine controversies. 

S.   C.   A.   34.     Mott.     Identical  with  A.   C.  A.   30.     Sisson. 

ARTICLE    XVI. 

State    Indebtedness. 

S'.    C.    A.    32.      Benson.      Adding    Section    2    to    Article    XVI 

of  the  Constitution,   relating  to  the   issuance  and   sale  of  State 

bonds    and    purchasing    with    the    proceeds    thereof    bonds    of 

irrigation,  drainage,  flood  control  and  reclamation  districts. 

ARTICLE    XX. 
Miscellaneous    Subjects. 
S.    C.   A.    7.      Scott.      Amending   Section    16   of   Article   XX   of 
the    Constitution,    relating   to   term   of   officers   when    not   fixed 
by  the  Constitution. 

Provides  that  term  of  office  of  officers  of  the  militia  shall 
not  be  limited  by  this  section. 

ARTICLE   XXIII. 
Recall    of   Public   Officials. 
S.  C.  A.  21.     Chandler.     Amending  Section  1  of  Article  XXIII 
of  the  Constitution,   providing  for  the  recall  by  the  electors  of 
public  officials. 

A.  C.  A.  33.  Ashley.  Amending  Section  1  of  Article  XXIII 
of  the  Constitution,  relating  to  the  recall  of  public  officials. 

ARTICLE    XXIV    (New). 
Athletics. 

A.  C.  A.  13.  Marron.  Adding  Article  XXIV  to  the  Consti- 
tution, establishing  a  State  athletic  commission  and  regulat- 
ing boxing  and  sparring  in  the  State. 

Creates  a  commission  of  three  persons,  to  be  appointed  by 
the  Governor  for  a  term  of  four  years,  without  compensation, 
to  have  sole  direction,  management,  control  and  jurisdiction 
of  all  boxing  and  sparring  matches  and  exhibitions  limited  to 
10  rounds,  conducted  by  clubs,  corporations  or  associations, 
to  be  licensed  by  the  commission. 

The  proposed  amendment  goes  into  great  detail  over  the 
powers   of   the   commission. 


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AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CODES 

CIVIL   CODE. 

S.  B.  87.  Slater.  Amending  Section  7,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  holidays.  Declares  February  12,  "Lincoln  Day,"  a  legal 
holiday. 

S.  B.  36.  Butler.  Amending  Section  59,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  marriages  that  are  incestuous  and  void.  Adds  "cousins  of 
the   first   degree"    to   the   prohibited  degrees. 

S.  B.  516.  Irwin.  Repealing  Section  79,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to   marriage  without  license. 

A.  B.  1079.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  92,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  grounds  of  divorce. 

Adds  a  seventh  ground,  permanent  and  incurable  insanity, 
where  spouse  has  been  by  court  order  committed  to  some  hos- 
pital for  the  insane  and  has  been  an  inmate  thereof  for  as 
much  as  three  years  next  prior  to  bringing  action  for  divorce. 

A.  B.  1480.  Chenoweth  (by  reque&'t).  Amending  Section  92, 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  causes  for  divorce. 

Adds  a  seventh  ground,  "incurable  insanity",  and  provides 
that  no  divorce  shall  be  granted  on  that  ground  unless  defend- 
ant shall  have  been  regularly  adjudged  insane  by  legally  con- 
stituted authorities  of  this  or  any  other  State,  and  shall  have 
been  confined  to  an  asylum  for  at  least  10  years  prior  to 
commencement  of  action  and  unless*  by  testimony  of  competent 
witness  it  shall  appear  to  the  court  that  the  insanity  is  in- 
curable; nor  shall  granting  of  divorce  on  such  ground  relieve 
plaintiff  of  obligation  to  provide  for,  care,  support  and  main- 
tenance of  defendant,  and  decree  shall  so  provide;  nor  shall 
any  decree  be  granted  on  ground  of  incurable  insanity  if 
same  was  caused  by  some  act  of  plaintiff  subsequent  to  mar- 
riage, or  isi  the  result  of  childbirth. 

S.  B.  230.  Anderson.  Adding  Section  128a  (new),  to  the 
Civil  Code,  providing  for  the  service  of  summons  and  complaint 
on  the  district  attorney  in  actions  for  divorce  or  annulment 
of  marriage,  and  conditioning  the  courts'  jurisdiction  thereon. 

S.  B.  562.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  131,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  actions  for  divorce,  so  as  to  make  the  time  allowed 
for  appeal  in  such  actions  correspond  with  the  other  amend- 
ments. 

A.  B.  809.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.  B.   562.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  43.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  137,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to    alimony   pending   suit   for   divorce. 

Provides  that  wife  may  maintain  action  for  maintenance 
when  husband  wilfully  fails  to  provide  for  her  for  sixty  days. 


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A.  B.  648.  Wright.  Adding  Section  146a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  husband  and  wife,  and  providing  that  all 
property  conveyed  to  either  spouse  after  interlocutory  decree 
in  divorce  and  before  final  decree  is  presumptively  separate 
property  of  spouse  to  whom  conveyed,  and  presumption  shall 
be  conclusive  against  purchaser  or  incumbrancer  in  good 
faith,    and    for   valuable    consideration. 

A.  B.  647.  Wright.  Adding  Section  149  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  providing  that  where  an  interlocutory  decree  in  divorce 
is  granted,  all  property  not  disposed  of  thereby  or  in  final 
decree  shall  be  presumptively  separate  property  of  spouse  in 
whose  name  title  stands  of  record,  notwithstanding  it  may  be 
community  property,  and  this  presumption  shall  be  conclusive 
in  favor  of  purchaser  or  incumbrancer  in  good  faith  and  for 
valuable   consideration. 

S.  B.  258.  Luce.  Amending  Section  162,  Civil  Code,  defining 
the  separate  property  of  the  wife. 

Adds  provision  that  earnings  and  accumulations  of  the  wife, 
whether  living  with  or  apart  from  her  husband,  and  the  earn- 
ings and  accumulations  of  the  minor  children  living  with  her, 
or  in  her  custody  while  living  apart  from  her  husband,  are 
the   separate   property  of   the  wife. 

A.  B.  1122.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  164,  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  community  property  and  conveyances  to  and 
by  married  women. 

A.  B.  1354.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  164,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  community  property  and  conveyances  to  and  by 
married  women. 

S.  B.  £59.  Luce.  Repealing  Section  169,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  the  separate  property  of  the  wife. 

S.  B.  221.  Scott.  Amending  Section  171,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  the  liability  of  the  wife's  separate  property  for  debts  in- 
curred in  certain  cases. 

Eliminates  the  provision  excepting  the  separate  property  of 
the  wife  held  by  her  at  time  of  her  marriage  or  acquired  by 
her  by  devise  or  succession  after  marriage. 

A.   B.   227.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S.   B.   221.     Scott. 

S.  B.  178.  Luce.  Amending  Section  172,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to   the   management   and    control   of  community   property. 

Adds  provision  that  husband  cannot  convey  or  encumber  the 
real  or  personal  property  that  is  part  of  the  community  prop- 
erty unless  the  wife  sign  and  acknowledge  the  deed  or  instru- 
ment  conveying  or   encumbering   it. 

A.  B.  824.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Sections  172  and  1401, 
Civil  Code,  and  repealing  Section  1402  of  said  code,  relating 
to  the  management,  control  and  disposition  of  community 
property. 

Provides    (Sec.    172)    for    joint    management    of    community 


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property,  and  prohibits  sale,  conveyance,  encumbrance  or  dis- 
posal without  consent  in  writing  of  each  spouse;  also  (Sec  140) 
upon  death  of  either  spouse,  survivor  takes  half  of  com- 
munity property,  and  balance  being  subject  to  testamentary 
disposition  of  deceased;  if  no  testamentary  disposition,  then 
all  goes  to  survivor  subject  to  community  debts,  family  al- 
lowance and  expenses  of  administration. 

S.  B.  26.  Purkitt.  Adding  Section  172*4  to  the  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  community  property. 

Requires  a  full  and  complete  inventory  of  community  prop- 
erty to  be  made  out,  signed  and  acknowledged  by  husband 
and  wife  and  hied  with  county  recorder  in  county  where 
parties  reside  and  in  every  county  where  they  own  real 
property  described  therein;  upon  the  death  of  either,  property 
described    in    inventory   vests   absolutely   in    survivor. 

A.  B.  878.  Pettis.  Amending  Section  174,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  liability  of  the  husband  for  necessaries  furnished 
to  the  wife. 

Includes  minor  children,  and  adds  a  provision  that  the  wife 
shall  be  deemed  the  agent  of  the  husband  in  contracting  for 
such  articles  or  services. 

S.  B.  922.  Butler.  Amending  Section  196a,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  support  of  illegitimate  children. 

S.  B.  140.  S'tuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  207,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  neglect  of  a  parent  to  provide  articles  neces-sary 
for  his  minor  child  or  minor  children. 

Provides  that  if  a  parent  neglects  to  provide  "the  necessary 
food,  clothing,  shelter  or  medical  attendance  for  his  minor 
child  or  minor  children,"  third  person  may  in  good  faith  supply 
such    necessaries,    and    recover    reasonable   value    from    parent. 

A.  B.  1049.  Harris.  Amending  Section  223,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  adoption  of  minor  children. 

Adds  provision  "unless  consent  cannot  be  obtained,  by  reason 
of  his  or  her  having  absconded  or  concealed  their  place  of 
residence". 

S.  B.  990.  Irwin  (by  request).  Identical  with  A.  B.  1049. 
Harris. 

A.  B.  751.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  224,  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  persons  whose  consent  is  necessary  to  the 
adoption  of  a  minor  child. 

Language  but  not  substance  is  changed. 

A.  B.  752.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  226,  Civil 
Code,   relating  to  proceedings  on  adoption. 

Provides  for  investigation  by  probation  officer. 

S.  B.  474.  Breed.  Amending  Lection  290,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  articles  of  incorporation  and  what  they  must  set  forth. 

Changes  the  words  "social  purposes"  in  Subdivision  5  to  f'for 
purposes  other  than  profit." 


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A.  B.  1438.  Encell.  Amending  Section  290,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  contents  of  articles  of  incorporation  of  corpo- 
rations'. 

Adds  a  further  provision  to  Subdivision  6  "that  the  preferred 
and  common  stock  shall  be  of  the  same  par  value". 

S.  B.  670.  Hans.  Amending  Section  290a,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  corporations  authorized  to  act  as  executor,  administrator, 
guardian,  assignee,  receiver,  depositary  or  trustee  or  to  engage 
in  the  business  of  banking. 

Adds  provision  requiring  approval  of  Superintendent  of  Banks 
before  Secretary  of  State  shall  issue  any  certificate  of  incor- 
poration or  files  any  amended  articles  of  incorporation,  cer- 
tificate increasing  or  decreasing  capital  stock,  extending  or 
shortening  corporate  existence  or  increasing  or  decreasing  num- 
ber of  directors  of  any  corporation  specified  in  this  section. 

A.  B.  1437.  Encell.  Amending  Section  296,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  filing  of  articles  of  incorporation. 

Adds  a  provision  that  the  Secretary  of  State  shall  issue  and 
file  in  his  office  a  duplicate  of  the  certificate  and  copies  thereof 
duly  certified  shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  the 
original. 

S.  B.  421.  King.  Adding  Section  302a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  providing  for  the  sending  of  a  financial  statement  to  the 
stockholders  of  every  corporation  prior  to  the  annual  meeting. 

S.  B.  646.  Thompson  (by  request).  Adding  Section  306  (new) 
to  the  Civil  Code,  relating  to  attendance  at  directors'  meetings. 

S.  B.  647.  Thompson  (by  request).  Adding  Section  306a 
(new)  to  the  Civil  Code,  relating  to  duties  of  directors  of 
corporations. 

Provides  that  if  a  director  of  a  corporation  is  at  place  where 
directors'  meeting  is  lawfully  convened  and  fails  or  refuses  to 
vote  on  any  question,  he  shall  be  considered  as  favoring  it 
and  counted  as  voting  in  the  affirmative. 

S.  B.  279.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  312,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  meeting  of  stockholders  of  corporations. 

Adds  a  provision  "except  in  cases  specified  in  Section  313, 
Civil  Code,  no  person  shall  be  eligible  to  act  as  a  proxy  or 
representative  of  a  stockholder  of  a  corporation  formed  for 
profit,  who  is  not,  at  the  time  he  acts  as  its  proxy  or  repre- 
sentative,   a   bona    fide   stockholder    in    said    corporation". 

A.  B.  1436.  Encell.  Adding  Section  316  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  increasing  or  decreasing  the  number  of 
directors  or  trustees   of  corporations  or  associations. 

Number  of  directors*  or  trustees  may  be  increased  or  dimin- 
ished by  vote  or  written  assent  of  stockholders  representing 
inajority  of  subscribed  capital  stock,  or  if  it  have  no  capital 
stock,  by  vote  or  written  assent  of  majority  of  members. 
Certificate  over  corporate  seal  setting  forth  action  taken  and 
stating  new  number  of  directors  shall  be   signed  by  president 


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and  secretary  and  filed  with  County  Clerk  of  county  where 
original  articles  were  filed  and  copy,  certified  by  County  Clerk, 
filed  with  Secretary  of  State. 

S.  B.  429.  Jones.  Adding  Section  318a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,   relating   to   the  calling  of   stockholders'   meetings. 

S.  B.  917.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  319,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  meetings  of  stockholders  and  boards  of  directors 
of  corporations. 

Provides  that  meetings  must  be  held  at  either  principal 
place  of  business  or  at  such  other  place  in  California  as  shall 
be  designated  by  board  of  directors  or  fixed  by  by-laws. 

S.  B.  642.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  320a  (new)  to  the 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  waiver  of  notice  of  meeting  by  directors 
of  corporations. 

Provides  that  by  consent  in  writing,  a  waiver  of  notice  of 
meeting  may  be  made. 

S.  B.  197.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  322,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to  liability  of  stockholders   in   corporations. 

Provides  that  each  stockholder  is,  "to  the  amount  of  the 
par  value  of  the  stock  or  shares  owned  by  him",  individually 
liable;  and  any  creditor  "after  first  proceeding  against,  and 
exhausting,  the  assets  of  the  corporation"  may  institute  an 
action   against  such   stockholders. 

A.  B.  371.     Bartlett.     Identical   with   S.   B.    197.     Ballard. 

S.  B.  316.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  329,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  lost,   destroyed  or  stolen   bonds  of  a  corporation. 

Permits  remedy  to  be  invoked  in  case  of  loss  of  bonds  "by 
robbery,   burglary  or  other  crime". 

A.  B.  492.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  316.     Tyrrell. 

S.  B.  1072.  Ballard  (by  request).  Adding  Section  330  to  the 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  debts  owing  to  and  stock  standing  in 
the   name   of  decedents. 

Provides  that  foreign  executor  or  administrator  may  dis- 
charge debts  owing  by  persons,  firms  and  corporations  doing 
business  in  this  State,  including  dividends  on  stock,  and  may 
secure  transfer  to  his  name  of  shares  of  stock  standing  in 
name  of  decedent  upon  presenting  stock  certificate,  duly  en- 
dorsed with  transcript  of  record  of  appointment  and  certificate 
from  clerk  of  court  having  jurisdiction  in  place  of  residence 
of  decedent  that  he  is  entitled  thereto,  together  with  affidavit 
that  there  is  no  person  in  this  State  that  is  or  claims  to  be  a 
creditor,  or,  if  there  be  such,  naming  him,  but  no  such  pay- 
ment or  transfer  shall  be  made  prior  to  three  months  after 
death  of  decedent,  or  if  administration  has  been  applied  for 
in  this  State;  after  such  payment  or  transfer  there  shall  be 
no  administration  thereon  in  this  State.  The  vendee,  assignee 
or  transferee  of  any  such  executor  or  administrator  may  secure 
transfer  to  his  name  in  similar  manner. 

A.  B.  1131.     Bartlett.     Adding  Section  530   (new)  to  the  Civil 


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Code,  relating  to  debts  owing  to  and  stock  standing  in  the  name 
of  decedents. 

A.  B.  1440.  Encell.  Amending  Section  359,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  issuance  of  stocks  or  bonds  of  corporations,  to 
the  increase  or  diminution  of  their  capital  stock,  and  to  the 
creation  or  increase  of  bonded  indebtedness  of  corporations*, 
including  the  creation  or  increase  of  a  consolidated  bonded  in- 
debtedness  by  two  or  more   corporations. 

A.  B.  1439.  Encell.  Amending  Section  362,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  amendment  of  articles  of  incorporation. 

S.  B.  134.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  405,  Civil  Code,  by 
providing  that  each  corporation,  joint  stock  company  or  asso- 
ciation doing  business  in  this  State  must  within  40  days  from 
time  it  commences  business  in  this  State  or  if  an  existing 
corporation,  etc.,  within  60  days  after  taking  effect  of  this 
section,  designate  some  person  upon  whom  service  of  process 
may  be  made  and  providing  for  method  of  service  upon  cor- 
porations,  joint  stock  companies  or  associations. 

S.  B.  124.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  421,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to   investments   by   insurance   companies. 

S.  B.  802.  Luce.  Adding  Sections  423,  423a,  423b,  423c,  423d, 
423e  and  423f,  Civil  Code,  all  relating  to  insurance  and  the 
investment  of   the   funds   of  life   insurance   companies. 

A.  B.  860.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  452a,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  formation  of  mutual  benefit  and  life  associa- 
tions. 

Forbids  the  issuance  of  contracts  of  insurance  until  5000 
persons  have  applied  in  writing  therefor,  and  have  paid  $200,- 
000  into .  the  treasury,  which  sum  shall  be  invested  in  bonds 
or  securities  approved  by  Insurance  Commissioner  in  trust. 
No  corporation  formed  hereunder  has  legal  existence  after 
one  year  from  date  of  articles  unless  organization  completed 
and  business  commenced;  nor  shall  such  concern  solicit  any 
business  until  Section  633,  Political  Code,  has  been  complied 
with. 

S.  B.  1153.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.  B.  860.     Prendergast. 

S.  B.  324.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  453t  and  453y, 
Civil   Code,    relating   to   title   insurance   companies. 

S.  B.  415.  Slater.  Amending  Section  465,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  powers  of  railroad   corporations. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  4  provision  that  where  railroad  crosses 
or  intersects  any  farm  or  private  road,  the  railroad  corporation 
shall  restore  such  farm  or  private  road  so  that  it  may  be  used 
without  inconvenience  or  delay  to  the  owner  thereof. 

S.  B.  715.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  485,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  liability  of  railroad  for  damages  for  killing  or 
maiming  animals  or  stock. 


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Strikes  out  the  words  "which  passes  through  or  along  the 
property  of  the  owner  thereof". 

A.  B.  1387.  Wishard  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B.  715. 
Stuckenbruck1. 

S.  B.  344.  Slater.  Adding  Section  485a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,    relating   to   crossings   of   railroads. 

S.  B.  32.  Hans.  Adding  S'ection  550a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  the  furnishing  of  water  for  family  use. 
Requires  water  corporation  to  make  service  connections  from 
main  to  curb  or  property  line,  and  make  necessary  meter 
installation,  as  governing  board  of  town  or  city  may  require, 
such  pipe  and  meter  installations  to  be  under  jurisdiction 
of  Railroad  Commission.  Failure  for  more  than  10  days 
after  demand  to  furnish  water  subjects  company  to  penalty 
of   $50  damages   for   each  day   thereafter. 

A.  B.  1167.  Edwards,  L.  Amending  Section  595,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  amount  of  real  estate  that  may  be  owned  by 
non-profit   corporations. 

S.  B.  458.  Carr.  Amending  SectxOn  598,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  mortgages,  sales  and  conveyances  of  real  property,  by 
religious,  social  and  benevolent  corporations. 

Provides  that  "corporations  of  the  character  mentioned  in 
Section  593,  may  mortgage,  sell  or  convey  any  or  all  real  prop- 
erty held  by  them,  in  like  manner  as  ordinary  corporations 
formed  for  profit,  without  obtaining  any  order  of  court  author- 
izing  such   sale,    mortgage   or   conveyance. 

A.  B.  941.  Fish  (by  request).  Amending  Section  598,  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  mortgages,  sales  and  conveyances  of  real 
property,   by  religious,   social  and  benevolent  corporations. 

Provides  that  this  may  be  done  without  order  of  court. 

S.  B.  475.  Breed.  Amending  Section  599,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  what  may  be  provided  for  in  the  by-laws,  ordinances, 
constitutions  or  articles  of  incorporation  of  corporations  now 
organized  or  that  may  hereafter  be  organized  for  purposes 
other  than  profit. 

Permits  by-laws  to  provide  any  manner  of  selection  or  elec- 
tion of  directors  or  officers;  and  adds  a  new  subdivision  (4« 
providing  that  the  manner  of  voting  may  be  by  ballot  or  any 
other  method  provided  in  the  by-laws. 

S.  B.  868.  Scott.  Amending  Section  610,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  property  of  cemetery  corporations. 

Provides  that  cemetery  corporations  may  take  and  hold  as 
much  personal  property  as  may  be  necessary  to  fulfil  the 
purposes  of  the  corporations.  All  funds  must  be  disposed  of 
in  the  improvement  of  the  cemetery  and  paying  incidental 
expenses  and  in  no  other  manner,  but  where  further  burial 
of  human  remains  shall  have  been  prohibited  in  any  cemetery 
any    funds    of    the    corporation    may    be    used    in    building    or 


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otherwise  providing  a  suitable  place  within  such  cemetery  for 
deposit  of  any  human  remains  removed  from  any  other  por- 
tion thereof  and  for  such  historical,  biographical,  scientific, 
religious,  or  other  public  purposes  as  shall  not  conflict  with 
primary  use  thereof  as  place  of  deposit  for  such  remains,  and 
for  maintenance  and   perpetual   care   thereof,    etc. 

A.  B.  1280.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Identical  with 
S.   B.   868.     Scott. 

S.  B.  869.  Scott.  Amending  Section  613,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  the  title   to  cemetery  lots. 

Provides  when  all  bodies  buried  in  any  lot  shall  have  been 
removed,  or  the  cemetery  or  portion  thereof  shall  have  been 
abandoned,  the  entire  title  thereto  shall  be  and  remain  in  the 
cemetery  corporation  that  originally  transferred  it;  but  the 
owners  of  the  lot  shall  retain  the  right  to  share  in  the  surplus 
assets  of  the  corporation  on  the  basis  held  by  them  prior  to 
the  removal  of  the  last  body  therefrom  or  the  abandonment 
or  abolishment  of  the  cemetery. 

A.  B.  1281.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Identical  with 
S.  B.  869.     Scott. 

S.  B.  870.  Scott.  Adding  Section  618  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  membership  in  cemetery  corporations  and 
the  rights  of  members   to   the   assets   thereof. 

Provides  lot  owners  are  members  of  cemetery  corporation, 
assets  of  which  shall  belong  to  members  in  such  proportion 
as  the  number  of  square  feet  of  land  owned  by  each  member 
shall  bear  to  the  whole  number  of  square  feet  of  land  sold, 
but  where  any  lot  is  sold  on  agreement  that  it  shall  be  paid 
for  only  as  interments  are  made,  only  such  part  of  the  lot 
actually  in  use  shall  constitute  the  interest  of  such  member 
in  the  assets  of  the  corporation.  Whenever  a  cemetery  shall 
have  been  abandoned  or  abolished  and  all  human  remains 
removed  lot  owners  or  their  heirs  at  law  shall  retain  their 
rights  of  membership  so  long  as  the  land  shall  remain  un- 
disposed of  and  the  surplus  assets  undivided.  No  member  of 
such  corporation  shall  have  any  right  in  or  to  the  assets 
thereof  while  he  claims  title  to  the  land  adversely  to  the 
corporation  nor  until  he  shall  have  released  and  conveyed  to 
said  corporation  any  portion  of  land  so  claimed  adversely  to 
the  corporation.  Nor  shall  any  member  have  a  right  to  de- 
mand or  receive  any  share  of  the  assets  until  all  human 
remains  shall  have  been  removed,  the  land  disposed  of  and 
the  care  of  remains  removed  provided  for,  and  there  shall 
remain  in  the  treasury  surplus  moneys  not  needed  for  any 
other  purpose. 

A.  B.  1282.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Identical  with 
S.  B.  870.     Scott. 

A.    B.    570.      Canepa.      Adding    Section    629a    (new)     to    the 


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Civil  Code,  relating  to  certain  requirements  of  gas  or  electric 
corporations   before   supplying   gas   or   electricity. 

S.  B.  3.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  632,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to   the  right  to   shut   off  supply  of  gas   or   electricity. 

Includes  telephone  corporations  and  service,  but  provides 
that  the  right  to  enter  premises  to  remove  property  "shall  not 
extend  to  and  no  charge  shall  be  made  for  readiness  to  serve, 
or  for  rental  of  any  meter,  pipes,  wires,  fittings,  instruments 
or    appliances." 

A.  B.  591.  Rigdon.  Amending  Sections  633,  634,  635,  636, 
€37,  638,  639,  640,  641,  642,  643,  644,  645,  646,  647,  648,  Civil 
Code,  and  repealing  Section  648a  thereof,  all  relating  to  land 
and    building   Corporations. 

Strikes  out  (Sec.  633)  the  right  to  receive  money  and  to 
execute  certificates  therefor,  and  to  borrow  money  for  making 
of  loans  and  of  paying  withdrawals  and  maturities;  restores 
the  first  three  paragraphs  of  Section  634  to  practically  the 
same  form  as  before  amendment  in  1913,  but  strikes  out  of 
paragraph  3  the  right  to  charge  a  withdrawal  fee;  paragraph 
5  provides  that  capital  stock  may  be  issued  on  which  member 
or  holder  must  pay,  on  each  share,  dues  in  such  amounts  and 
at  such  times  as  by-laws  may  provide  and  on  which  payments 
must  continue  until,  with  profits,  it  reaches  matured  value, 
or  is  withdrawn  or  cancelled.  Such  stock  may  be  issued  in 
series,  and  when  so  issued  payment  of  dues  in  each  series 
shall  begin  with  issue  of  shares  therein.  No  share  of  prior 
series  shall  be  issued  after  issue  of  shares  of  new  series, 
except  by  way  of  transfer;  omits  from  Section  635  "other  than 
guarantee  stock";  provides  (Sec.  636)  that  matured  value 
shall  be  paid,  with  interest  from  time  board  of  directors  shall 
declare  shares  to  have  matured  until  notified  that  payment  is 
ready  to  be  made  by  the  association;  the  present  Section  637, 
as  amended  in  1913,  is  superseded  by  a  provision  that  "Loans 
may  be  made  on  such  terms  and  conditions  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  board  of  directors  or  the  by-laws";  restores 
Section  638  to  condition  before  amendment  in  1913,  except  that 
provision  that  there  need  be  no  such  pledge  [of  shares]  in 
loans  made  to  others  than  members;  strikes  out  of  Section  639 
the  words  "or  loan  instalments";  no  change  in  Section  640; 
strikes  out  all  of  Section  641  except  the  first  sentence;  strikes 
out  (Sec.  642)  reference  to  investors  and  investment  certificates 
and  omits  the  last  sentence;  no  change  in  Section  643;  omits 
the  word  "investors"  from  Section  644;  no  change  in  Section 
645  or  Section  646;  the  name  "building  and  loan  association" 
(Sec.  647),  as  used  in  this  title,  shall  include  only  corporations 
formed  for  purpose  of  receiving  moneys  from  _  and  loaning 
money  to  their  members  only;  strikes  out  of  former  Section  648a 
reference  to  guarantee  stock  and  renumbers  it  Section  648. 


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S.  B.  676.  Campbell.  Amending  Sections  633,  634,  635,  636, 
637,  638,  639,  640,  641,  642,  643,  644,  645,  646,  647,  648,  Civil 
Code,  and  repealing  Section  648a,  Civil  Code,  all  relating  to 
land  and  building  corporations. 

S.  B.  683.  Cohn.  Amending  Section  634,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  building  and  loan  associations,  and  to  their  installment  or 
full  paid  investment  certificates  and  security  for  investment 
certificate  liabilities  of  the  same. 

Adds  a  provision  to  subdivision  e,  that  the  aggregate  of 
guarantee  capital  stock  or  permanent  non-withdrawable  capi- 
tal stock,  or  both,  or  reserve  fund,  of  every  building  and  loan 
association  issuing  installment  or  full-paid  investment  cer- 
tificates must  equal  the  following  percentages  of  its  invest- 
ment certificate  liabilities:  10  per  cent  of  any  amount  up  to 
and  including  $1,000,000;  iy2  per  cent  of  any  amount  in  excess 
of  $1,000,000  up  to  and  including  $2,000,000;  5  per  cent  of  any 
amount  in  excess  of  $2,000,000  up  to  and  including  $5,000,000. 

A.   B.   724.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   683,   Cohn. 

S.  B.  84.  Benson.  Adding  Section  642a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  building  and  loan  associations.  Provides 
that  where  applications  for  withdrawal  of  free  shares  or 
certificates  or  demand  for  payment  of  matured  shares  shall 
have  been  unpaid  for  one  year,  all  receipts  and  proceeds 
after  payment  of  expenses  and  general  indebtedness  shall 
be  applied  toward  payment  of  such  withdrawals  and 
maturities  upon  a  ratable  and  proportionate  basis;  failure 
to  pay  within  two  years  vests  power  in  supervising  officer 
to   forthwith   take   possession   of  and   liquidate   business. 

A.  B.  50.     Wright,   T.  M.     Identical  with  S.   B.   84.     Benson. 

S.  B.  83.  Benson.  Amending  Section  646,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  building  and  loan  associations.  Provides  that 
every  foreign  building  and  loan  association  or  similar  con- 
cern shall  not  do  business  in  California  or  sell  its  stock,  bonds 
or  other  securities  in  this  State  without  first  depositing 
$50,000  in  money  or  acceptable  bonds  or  other  security 
satisfactory  to  the  superintendent  as  a  guarantee  fund; 
it  must  procure  the  license  required  by  law,  pay  the 
statutory  fee  and  annually  renew  same;  substitution  of 
securities  is  permitted  with  the  consent  of  the  supervising 
officer,  and  the  fund  shall  not  be  withdrawn  except  upon 
satisfactory  proof  of  liquidation  of  all  liabilities  to  residents 
of    California. 

A.  B.  54.     Wright,   T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.   83.     Benson. 

S.  B.  80.  Jones.  Amending  Section  647,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  building  and  loan  associations.  Includes  "bonds  of 
any  public  utility  corporation"  among  those  that  may  be 
invested  in  or  taken  as  security,  subject  to  approval  by 
the  officer  vested  with  powers  of  supervision  and  license. 


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A.  B.  82.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  -g.  B.  80.     Jones. 

A.  B.  1406.  Ryan.  Adding  Section  653h  a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  providing  for  the  manner  of  calling  meetings  of  an  un- 
incorporated society,  organization  or  association,  when  the 
manner  of  calling  the  same  is  unprovided  for  in  the  constitu- 
tion or  by-laws  of  such  unincorporated  society,  organization  or 
association,  or  the  officer  whose  duty  it  is  to  call  such  meeting 
fails  or  refuses  so  to  do. 

Identical  in  subject-matter  with  A.  B.  65.     Ryan. 

S.  B.  129.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  715  of  the  Civil 
Code,   relating  to  restraints  upon  alienation. 

Provides  that  except  in  the  single  case  mentioned  in  Section 
772,  Civil  Code,  the  absolute  power  of  alienation  cannot  be 
suspended  for  a  longer  period  than  during  continuance  of  lives 
in  being  at  creation  of  limitation  or  condition,  or  for  period 
not    to   exceed    20    years    from    time   of   creation   of   suspension. 

A.  B.  1418.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  718,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  limits  to  certain  leases. 

Provides  that  the  property  of  any  municipality  shall  not  be 
leased   for   a   longer   period   than   25   years. 

A.  B.  935.  Rutherford.  Amending  Section  933,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  proceedings  in  police  courts. 

A.  B  929.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  955,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to    the    assignment    of    wages    or    salary. 

Strikes  out  the  provision  making  any  power  of  attorney  to 
assign  or  collect  wages  shall  be  revocable  at  any  time  by  the 
maker. 

S.  B.  522.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1006,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  "occupancy". 

S.  B.  1043.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1006,  Civil  Code, 
relating    to    occupancy   of    real   property. 

Adds  provision  that  neither  this  section  nor  occupancy  alone 
shall  in  any  case  be  construed  to  confer  any  right  upon  a 
mere  trespasser  upon  real  property  against  one  making  or 
having  a  bona  fide  claim  or  ownership  under  color  of  title. 

A.  B.  993.  Burke.  Adding  Section  1109a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  transfer  of  property  for  highway  purposes. 

Provides  that  whenever  land  is  granted  or  condemned  for 
highway  purposes,  reservations  of  right  to  cross  or  otherwise 
use  such  land  may  be  made  and  exercised,  subject  to  regulation 
by  competent  authority. 

S.  B.  959.  Ballard  (by  request).  Identical  with  A.  B.  993. 
Burke. 

S.  B.  273.  Jones.  Amending  Section  1207,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  defectively  acknowledged  instruments  of  record  in  the  office 
of  the  county  recorder  prior  to  the  first  day  of  January,   1915. 

Changes  the  date  at  end  of  second  line  of  such  section 
(Deering's  Civil  Code,  p!   351)   from  1913  to  1915. 


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S.  B.  238.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  1313,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  restrictions  on  devises  or  bequests  for  charitable 
uses. 

Adds  a  further  provision  exempting  bequests  and  devises  to 
the  State  or  to  any  State  institution,  or  for  the  use  and  benefit 
thereof,  from  the  restrictions  of  this  section. 

A.  B.  314.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  238.     Strobridge. 

A.  B.  27.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  1401  of  the  Civil 
Code,    relating   to    community   property. 

Provides  that  upon  death  of  either  husband  or  wife,  the 
entire  community  property,  without  administration,  belongs 
to    the    survivor. 

A.  B.  42.  Ashley.  Amending  Sections  1401  and  1402,  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  the  succession  to,  and  the  disposition  of, 
the    common   property. 

Provides  (Sec.  1401)  that  upon  the  death  of  "either  the 
husband  or  wife"  the  entire  community  property,  without 
administration,  belongs  to  the  surviving  spouse;  and  (Sec. 
1402)  upon  dissolution  of  community  by  death  of  either  spouse, 
the  entire  community  property  is  equally  subject  to  their 
debts,  subject  to  provisions  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure 
relating  to  succession  to  or  disposition  of  homesteads  selected 
during    life    of    either    spouse. 

S.  B.  5.  Eutler.  Amending  Section  1402,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  community  property.  Provides  that  upon  the  death  of 
either  spouse  the  entire  property  goes  to  the  survivor  with- 
out administration,  "subject  to  debts  contracted  by  either 
during  coverture,  the  family  allowance  and  expenses  of  the 
last    illness". 

A.  B.  26.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  1402,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to   community  property. 

Provides  that  upon  death  of  either  spouse  all  community 
property  goes   to   survivor  without   administration. 

A.  B.  870.  Shartel.  Amending  Sections  1410  and  1415,  Civil 
Code,  and  other  sections  with  reference  to  the  acquiring  and 
appropriation  of  water. 

S.  B.  889.  Breed.  Adding  Section  1410b  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  acts  to  be  done  to  maintain  the  flow  of 
water  in  a  natural  stream  to  the  intake  of  any  canal  diverting 
water  for  sale,   rental  or  distribution   to  the  public. 

Provides  that  flow  of  water  in  any  natural  stream  to  intake 
of  any  canal  diverting  water  for  sale,  rental  or  distribution 
to  public  may  be  maintained  by  repairing  any  break  in  bank 
of  stream,  by  maintaining  banks  of  stream,  and  by  preventing 
by  physical  structure  and  other  means  any  increased  flow  of 
water  through  natural  byways  of  water  that  carry  or  threaten 
to  carry  such  increase  of  water  away  from  intake. 

A.   B.   1094.     Satterwhite.     Identical  with  S.  B.  889.     Breed. 


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A.  B.  426.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  1416,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  work  required  to  be  done  in  the  appropriation 
of  the  waters  of  the  State. 

Includes   "irrigation   districts." 

A.  B.  1306.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1426n,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  fees  for  recording  affidavits  of  labor  or  improve- 
ments of  mining  claims. 

Pees  fixed  at  10  cents  per  folio,  20  cents  for  endorsement 
and  10  cents  for  indexing  name  of  each  claim  and  each  owner. 

S.  B.  1193.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1624  of  the  Civil 
Code,  and  repealing  Article  II  of  Chapter  III  of  Title  IV  of 
Division  II  of  the  Civil  Code,  and  repealing  Sections  3308,  3309, 
3310,  3311,  3312,  3313,  3314,  3353,  3354,  3355,  1739  and  1740  of 
the  Civil  Code,  Chapter  II  of  Title  I  of  Part  IV  of  Division  III 
of  the  Civil  Code,  Chapter  III  of  Title  I  of  Part  IV  of  Division 
III  of  the  Civil  Code,  Chapter  IV  of  Title  I  of  Part  IV  of  Divi- 
sion III  of  the  Civil  Code,  and  to  add  Chapters  II,  III,  IV,  V, 
VI  and  VII  of  Title  I  of  Part  IV  of  Division  III  of  said  Civil 
Code  in  place  thereof,  relating  to  the  sale  of  personal  property. 

This  is  the  Uniform  Sales  of  Goods  Act,  drafted  by  the 
Commissioners  of  Uniform  State  Laws,  endorsed  by  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  Association  and  the  California  Bar  Association, 
adopted  by  the  Federal  Government  and  most  of  the  states. 

S.  B.  840.  Scott.  Adding  Section  1624a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  contracts  in  foreign  languages,  and  actions 
thereon. 

Provides  that  all  contracts  involving  $50  or  more,  to  which 
any  alien  of  less  than  two  years'  residence  in  the  United 
States  is  a  party,  must  be  in  writing  in  English  language  and 
also  in  the  language  of  the  alien  party  to  the  contract,  and 
must  be  subscribed  by  the  party  to  be  charged  or  by  his 
agent;  such  contract  shall  be  invalid  as  to  such  alien  if  not  in 
conformity  herewith,  In  actions  arising  out  of  such  con- 
tracts, both  copies  shall  be  considered  and  neither  shall  be 
binding  over  the   other. 

A.   B.   910.     Sisson.     Identical  with   S.   B.   840.     Scott. 

S.  B.  965.  Stuckenbruck.  Adding  Section  1657a  (new)  to 
the  Civil  Code,  relating  to  the  time  for  completion  of  real 
estate  improvement  work  under  a  contract  silent  as  to  the 
time  for  such  completion. 

Provides  that  where  no  definite  time  is  fixed  in  instrument 
for  completion  of  work,  then  the  "reasonable  time"  for  com- 
pletion shall  be  considered  to  mean  not  more  than  2  years 
from  date  of  instrument. 

A.  B.  1165.     Ashley.     Identical  with  S.  B.  965.     Stuckenbruck. 

A.  B.  855.  Hayes.  Amending  Section  1674,  Civil  Code,  in 
relation  to  contracts  in  restraint  of  trade. 

Adds   provision   that   section   shall   not  be   construed   to   vali- 


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date  any  contract  or  terms  of  employment  whereby  an  em- 
ployee, soliciting  trade  for  his  employer,  shall  upon  discharge 
or  resignation  be  prevented  from  soliciting  trade  or  receiv- 
ing orders  from  former  customers  of  such  employer. 

S.  B.  734.  Flaherty.  Amending  Section  1674,  Civil  Code, 
in  relation  to  contracts  in  restraint  of  trade. 

A.  B.  207.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  1677  (new)  to  the 
Civil   Code,   prohibiting  secret  liens  on  personal  property. 

Declares  contracts  creating  secret  liens  void.  Every  con- 
tract whereby  seller  of  personal  property  reserves  or  retains 
title  after  delivery  until  purchase  price  is  paid  is  deemed  to 
create  secret  lien  and  is  to  that  extent  void;  every  contract 
of  hire  or  rental  of  personal  property  where  the  sums  paid 
for  hire  or  rental  are  ultimately  to  be  taken  as  purchase 
money  for  any  personal  property  delivered  thereunder  shall 
be  deemed  a  contract  of  sale  and  title  to  said  property  shall 
pass  with  delivery  thereof.  Every  shift,  artifice,  or  device, 
whereby  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  is  sought  or 
intended    to    be    evaded,    shall    be    null   and    void. 

S.  B.  70.  Scott.  Adding  Section  1716  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  negligence  and  the  enforcement  of  claims 
against  municipal  corporations  because  of  negligence  in  cer- 
tain  cases. 

Provides  that  where  a  contract  has  been  entered  into  for 
street  work  the  cost  of  which  will  be  a  lien  on  private  prop- 
erty if  all  steps  required  by  law  have  been  legally  taken  and 
the  contract  contains  a  clause  exempting  the  municipality 
from  liability,  all  courts  shall  construe  the  contract  as  an 
undertaking  on  the  part  of  the  municipality  that  it  and  its 
officers,  boards  and  departments  have  and  will  legally  per- 
form every  act  required  by  law  to  make  the  contract  price  a 
valid  lien  against  the  specific  private  property  affected;  and 
where  the  contractor  is  unable  to  collect  the  contract  price 
because  of  any  error,  defect,  or  omission  by  the  municipality, 
or  the  unconstitutionality  of  any  statute,  or  the  non-owner- 
ship by  the  municipality,  necessary  to  constitute  a  valid  lien, 
the  person  so  unable  to  collect  shall  have  a  cause  of  action 
against  the  municipality  for  negligence,  entitling  him  to  dam- 
ages in  the  amount  of  the  expense,  value  or  contract  price 
for  the  work.  The  provisions  of  Title  II,  Part  II,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  shall  not  apply,  and  the  person  having  such 
claim  shall  have  the  right  to  present  same  for  allowance  to 
the  proper  officers  of  the  municipality  at  any  time  within  20 
days  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  any  other  statute,  regu- 
lation   or    ordinance    to    the    contrary    notwithstanding. 

A.  B.  330.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.  70.     Scott. 

S.  B.  1178.  Brown.  Adding  Section  1739a  (new)  to  the 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  permanent  records  of  conditional  sales. 


28  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Declares  all  such  agreements  void  as  to  all  subsequent  pur- 
chasers in  good  faith  and  creditors,  unless  conditions  shall  be 
evidenced  in  writing,  executed,  acknowledged  and  recorded  as 
provided  in  cases  of  mortgages  of  personal  property. 

S.  B.  882.  Luce.  Adding  Section  1742  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,    relating  to   conditional   sales. 

Provides  that  no  sale,  contract  or  lease  wherein  transfer  of 
title  or  ownership  of  personal  property  depends  on  any  condi- 
tion shall  be  valid  against  any  purchaser  or  judgment  creditor 
of  vendee  or  lessee  in  actual  possession,  unless  same  be  in 
writing,  signed  by  vendee  or  lessee,  and  copy  recorded  in 
county  recorder's  office,  together  with  an  affidavit  showing 
the  interest  of  vendor  or  lessor  therein.  All  such  sales  shall 
cease  to  be  valid  against  purchasers  in  good  faith  or  judgment 
or  attaching  creditors  without  notice  at  expiration  of  five 
years  unless  vendor  or  lessor  shall  within  30  days  prior  to 
expiration  of  five  years  from  date  of  sale  or  transfer,  file 
verified  copy  thereof  in  county  recorder's  office  and  validity 
of  sale  may  be  preserved  by  annual  refiling.  Does  not  apply 
to   chattel  mortgages. 

A.  B.  1027.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  1742  (new)  to  the 
Civil   Code,   relating   to   contracts  of  conditional   sale. 

Provides  that  every  contract  of  sale  of  personal  property, 
other  than  a  thing  in  action,  wherein  title  is  reserved  until 
whole  or  part  of  purchase  price  shall  be  paid,  or  wherein  trans- 
fer of  title  is  dependent  upon  any  condition,  shall  in  respect 
to  such  reservation  and  condition  be  void  as  to  creditors  of 
vendee  or  intended  vendee  and  as  to  all  subsequent  purchasers 
and  incumbrancers  of  such  property  in  good  faith  and  for 
value,  unless  contract  be  in  writing  and  signed  by  vendee  or 
intended  vendee. 

S.  B.  1127.  Kehoe.  Adding  Section  1771a  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code,   relating  to   the   sale  of  live   stock. 

Provides  that  any  person  selling-  live  stock  thereby  warrants 
it  sound  and  merchantable  and  free  from  contagious  or  in- 
fectious  diseases   when   so   sold. 

A.  B.  298.  Avey.  Amending  Section  1861,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  lien  of  hotel,  inn,  boarding-house  and  lodging-house 
keepers  upon  the  baggage  and  other  property  of  value  of  their 
guests,  or  boarders,  or  lodgers,  by  including  therein  a  lien  for 
apartment  house  keepers  upon  the  property  of  their  tenants. 

S.    B.   543.     Cogswell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   298.      Avey. 

A.  B.  434.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  1861,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  lien  of  hotel  keepers  on  property  of  guests  for 
charges. 

A.  B.  653.  Encell.  Amending  Section  1861,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  lien  of  hotel  keepers  on  property  of  guests  for 
charges. 


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Gives  a  lien  on  baggage  and  other  property  "belonging  to 
or  legally  under  the  control"  of  guests  "which  may  be  in"  the 
hotel,  etc.,  "for  the  proper  charges  due  from"  such  guests 
for  "their  accommodation,"  etc.,  "and  for  all  money  paid  for 
or  advanced  to  such  guests,  or  boarders  or  lodgers,  and  for 
the  costs  of  enforcing  such  lien";  unless  charges  are  paid 
within  60  days,  property  may  be  sold  at  public  auction,  after 
giving  notice  of  sale  by  publication  once  a  week  for  four 
successive  weeks  in  a  newspaper  and  by  mailing  at  least  15 
days  before  date  of  sale  a  copy  of  such  notice  addressed  to 
such  guest  at  his  postoffice  address;  if  there  be  any  residue 
from  said  sale,  and  no  demand  is  made  for  it  within  six 
months,  it  shall  be  paid  into  treasury  of  county,  and  if  not 
demanded  within  one  year  thereafter,  shall  be  transferred 
into  general   fund. 

A.  B.  1410.  Lostutter.  Amending  Sections  1917  and  1918, 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  rate  of  interest. 

Fixes  (Sec.  1917)  the  legal  rate  of  interest  at  6  per  cent, 
and  limits  (Sec.  1918)  the  maximum  amount  that  may  be 
agreed  upon  at  12  per  cent,  but  excepts  contracts  of  building 
and  loan   associations. 

A.  B.  3.  Brown.  Amending  Sections  1917,  1918,  1919  and  1920, 
Civil  Code,  and  adding  Section  1921  (new)  thereto,  relating  to 
the  loan  of  money,  and  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  allowed  and 
charged   therefor. 

The  legal  rate  of  interest  (Sec.  1917)  on  all  moneys  after 
same  become  due  is  fixed  at  7  per  cent;  but  on  contracts 
interest  up  to  9  per  cent  per  annum,  and  no  more,  may  be 
charged  by  express  agreement  in  writing.  In  computing  in- 
terest for  a  period  less  than  a  year,  360  days  are  deemed  to 
constitute  a   year. 

No  person  shall  (Sec.  1918)  directly  or  indirectly  in  money 
or  in  any  other  manner  receive  greater  interest  than  provided 
in  this  chapter.  Interest  must  not  be  compounded  in  any 
manner. 

If  it  shall  be  ascertained  (Sec.  1919)  in  any  action  on  con- 
tract that  a  greater  rate  of  interest  has  been  contracted  for 
than  provided  in  Section  1917,  the  same  shall  be  deemed 
usurious  and  shall  forfeit  the  entire  interest  so  contracted  for, 
and  the  court  shall  enter  judgment  for  the  original  sum  loaned 
without   interest. 

The  interest  rate  on  judgments  (Sec.  1920)  is  reduced  from 
7   to  6   per   cent. 

The  bona  fide  assignee  (Sec.  1921  [new])  of  any  usurious 
contract  may  by  proper  action  recover  against  his  original 
assignor  or  original  usurer  the  full  amount  paid  by  him  for 
the  contract,  provided  it  is  proven  that  assignee  had  no 
notice  of  the  usury. 


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This  act  not  to  be  construed  as  affecting  any  rate  of  in- 
terest to  be  received  by  virtue  of  any  contract  entered  into 
before  it  shall  take  effect.  (A.  B.  881.  Brown.  "Pending 
Legislation,    1913,"   p.    61.) 

S.  B.   914.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.   B.       3.     Brown. 

S.  B.  138.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1920.  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  interest  on  judgments. 

Fixes  interest  rate  at  12  per  cent,  provided  that  party 
against  whom  judgment  is  rendered  may  within  30  days  after 
rendition  thereof  file  with  Clerk  of  Court  a  waiver  of  right 
of  appeal  in  which  event  interest  rate  shall  be  7  per  cent,  but 
must  not  be  compounded  in  any  manner. 

A.  B.  60S.  Johnson.  Amending  Section  1955,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to   the   letting  and  hiring  of  personal  property. 

Provides  that  letter  of  personal  property  must  deliver  it 
to  hirer  in  condition  fit  for  purpose  for  which  let  and  from 
time  to  time  repair  all  deteriorations  not  caused  by  fault  of 
hirer  or  natural  result  of  use;  secure  hirer  against  all  lawful 
claimants,  subject  to  terms  of  any  agreement  between  them. 
When  any  personal  property  has  been  delivered  by  owner  to 
hirer  under  written  agreement  that  hirer  may  purchase  same 
after  payment  of  full  rental  thereof,  such  agreement  shall  be 
conclusively  presumed  to  be  a  lease  thereof  only  with  option 
in  to  purchase  for  additional  sum  stated  therein.  Hirer  shall 
have  no  right  to  said  property  except  according  to  terms  of 
agreement  until  he  shall  have  exercised  option  to  purchase 
and  paid  additional  sum  stated  therein  for  purchase  of  title 
according  to   terms   of  agreement. 

S.   B.   697.     Ballard.     Identical  with  A.   B.   608.     Johnson. 

A.  B.  1000.  Bartlett.  Identical  with  S.  B.  697,  Ballard,  and 
A.    B.    608,   Johnson. 

S.  B.  9S5.  Lyon.  Amending  Sections  1999,  2000,  2001,  2002  and 
2003,  Civil  Code,   relating  to  employees. 

S.  B.  1071.  Crowley.  Amending  Section  2181  of  the  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  personal  and  sample  baggage  or  luggage  and  to 
place  rules,  regulations  and  liability  relative  thereto  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Railroad  Commission  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  to  limit  the  operations  of  this  section  to  common 
carriers  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  said  Railroad  Commis- 
sion and  to  the  handling  of  baggage  originating  and  terminate 
ing   within   the   State   of   California. 

A.  B.  1370.  Beck  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B.  1071. 
Crowley. 

A.  B.  1028.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  2264  (new)  to  the 
Civil  Code,   relating  to  sales  by  trustees  under  express  trusts. 

Provides  that  no  sale  of  trust  property  shall  be  made  by 
trustee  under  terms  of  any  instrument  creating  express  trust 
as  security  for  performance  Of  any  obligation  until  at  least  10 


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days  after  trustee  or  beneficiary  shall  have  sent  by  registered 
mail  or  delivered  personally  to  trustor  or  his  successor  in 
interest  and  to  beneficiary  under  any  subsequent  trust  affecting- 
trust  property  and  to  holder  of  any  subsequent  incumbrance 
appearing  of  record,  a  notice  of  time  and  place  of  sale;  failure 
to  give  such  notice  shall  not  affect  title  of  property  sold,  but 
beneficiary  under  trust  shall  be  liable  in  damages  to  any  per- 
son who  shall  suffer  detriment. 

A.  B.  921.  Ryan.  Amending  Section  2268,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to   the   power   of   trustees. 

Permits  action  by  majority  of  trustees,  unless  declaration 
of  trust  provides  otherwise. 

S.  B.  60.  Finn.  Amending  Section  2286,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  power  of  trustees.  Provides  that  a  majority  of 
the   trustees   may   act   and    bind   the   trust   property,    etc. 

S.  B.  751.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  2287,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  appointment  of  trustees. 

S.  B.  59.  Finn.  Amending  Section  2289,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  appointment  of  trustees,  by  adding  "or  with  a  less 
number  of  trustees  than  were  originally  appointed,  or  with 
one   or   more   trustees." 

A.  B.  922.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.  B.   59.     Finn. 

S.  B.  57.  Finn.  Adding  Section  2301  (new)  to  the  Civil 
Code  defining  agencies.  Declares  any  person  who  while  in 
lawful  possession  of  an  article  of  personal  property  causes 
alterations  or  repairs  to  be  made  or  labor  to  be  employed 
thereon  for  its  protection,  improvement,  safe-keeping  or  car- 
riage, to  be  the  agent  of  the  owner  of  such  automobile  or 
motor  vehicle  for  the  purposes  of  Part  IV,  Title  XIV,  Chap- 
ter VII,    Art.    Ill,    Civil   Code. 

A.   B.  377.     Chamberlain.     Identical  with  S.  B.     57.     Finn. 

S.  B.  506.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  2453,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  notice  necessary  for  termination  of  liability 
of  a  general  partner  for  the   acts  of  his  copartners. 

S.  B.  568.  Benedict.  Repealing  Section  2633a,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  time  for  notice  of  loss  in  casualty  or  accident 
insurance  policies. 

A.   B.   1229.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.   568.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  996.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  2903a  (new)  to  the 
Civil  Code,  relating  to  the  foreclosure  of  deeds  of  trust  and 
redemption. 

Provides  that  deeds  of  trust  in  nature  of  mortgages  may  at 
option  of  cestuis  que  trust,  etc.,  be  foreclosed  and  property  sold 
in  same  manner  as  mortgages,  and  all  real  estate  which  may 
be  sold  by  trustees,  according-  to  terms  of  deed,  without  deed 
of  trust  having  been  foreclosed,  and  which  shall  be  bought  In 
by  cestui  que  trust,  his  assignee  or  any  other  person  for  them, 
shall    be    subject    to   redemption    by    grantor   any    time    within 


32  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915, 

three  months  from  date  of  sale,  on  payment  of  debt  and  inter- 
est secured  by  deed  of  trust  and  all  legal  charges  and  costs 
of  sale,  and  at  such  sale  purchaser  shall  receive  certificate  of 
purchase  setting  forth  property  sold  and  amount  of  purchase 
money  received,  which  certificate  shall  be  delivered  to  trustee 
on    application   for   deed   at    expiration    of   three    months. 

S.  B.  649.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  2924,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  mortgages  and  deeds  of  trust. 

Provides  that  deeds  of  trust  made  as  security  for  debt  shall 
be  foreclosed  by  sale  of  property  by  the  trustee;  notice  of  such 
case  shall  be  given  by  publication  as  in  the  deed  of  trust 
provided,  but  not  less  than  once  a  week  for  at  least  three 
weeks,  in  a  newspaper  in  the  county  in  which  the  property 
to  be  sold  is  situated,  by  posting  at  least  three  weeks  before 
date  fixed  for  sale  in  conspicuous  place  on  premises  to  be 
sold;  and  by  delivering  to  the  person  in  possession  of  the 
premises,  if  occupied,  a  notice  in  writing  not  less  than  three 
weeks  before  the  sale.  Upon  sale,  trustee  shall  record  cer- 
tificate showing  time  and  place  of  sale,  name  of  purchaser, 
and  price  for  which  sold,  and  stating  that  if  not  redeemed 
within  four  months  after  date  of  recording  trustee  will  execute 
deed;  if  owner  or  successor  in  interest  shall  redeem  within  four 
months  by  paying  trustee  amount  of  purchase  price,  together 
within  interest  thereon  at  1  per  cent  a  month  from  date  of 
sale,  effect  of  sale  shall  terminate  and  owner  be  restored  to 
his  estate;  upon  redemption  trustee  shall  pay  redemption 
money,  less  fees  and  costs  of  trustee,  to  purchaser  at  sale,  or 
his  successor  in  interest,  and  shall  issue  certificate  of  redemp- 
tion, which  shall  be  recorded,  said  recording  to  clear  the  title 
of  lien  created  by  deed  of  trust  and  sale;  if  not  redeemed, 
trustee  shall  execute  deed  and  pass  title  thereto. 

Fixes  maximum  fees  of  trustee,  including  attorney's  fees, 
as  follows:  For  any  sum  not  exceeding  $500,  $75;  over  $500 
and  not  exceeding  $1000,  $100;  over  $1000  and  not  exceeding 
$2000,  $150;  over  $2000  and  not  exceeding  $3500,  $200;  over 
$3500  and  not  exceeding  $5000,  $235;  over  $5000  and  not  ex- 
ceeding $7500,  $285;  over  $7500  and  not  exceeding  $10,000,  $320; 
over  $10,000  and  not  exceeding  $15,000,  $350;  $25  for  each  $5000 
or  fraction  thereof  over  $15,000,  and  any  provision  in  any  trust 
deed  for  any  greater  compensation  shall  be  void  as  to  excess 
over  such  amounts. 

A.  B.  853.  Manning.  Amending  Section  2924,  Civil  Code, 
relating   to   mortgages  and  deeds  of  trust. 

Similar  to  S.  B.  649 — Thompson,  but  contains  no.  schedule 
of    fees. 

A.  B.  717.  McDonald,  J.  J.  Amending  Section  2924,  Civil 
Code,  relating  to  transfer  of  interest,  when  a  mortgage  and 
when  a  pledge  in  property. 


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Strikes  out   the  words   "other  than  in  trust." 

S.  B.  72.  Duncan.  Adding  Section  2940%  (new)  to  the 
Civil  Code  relating  to  presumption  payment  of  mortgages. 
Provides  that  if  no  suit  in  foreclosure  has  been  instituted 
for  a  period  of  ten  years  after  maturity  of  the  obligations 
mentioned  therein,  it  is  to  be  conclusively  presumed  that 
the  mortgage  has  been  fully  paid  and  discharged  and  is  no 
longer   a    lien    on    the    property. 

A.  B.  200.  Rodgers.  Amending  Section  2967,  Civil  Code, 
relating  to  the  foreclosure  of  mortgages  on   personal  property. 

Provides  foreclosure  may  be  made  as  prescribed  by  Sections 
726    to   729,   inclusive,   of   the   Code  of   Civil   Procedure. 

S.  B.  428.  Jones.  Amending  Section  2969,  Civil  Code,  relat- 
ing to  limitation  of  rights  of  officers  to  levy  on  mortgaged 
personal  property. 

S.  B.  56.  Finn.  Amending  Section  3051,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating to  liens  upon  personal  property.  Includes  "other  motor 
propelled  vehicles"  and  extends  the  lien  to  "gasoline,  distil- 
late, oils,  grease,  supplies  and  accessories  furnished  the  owner 
or  legal  possessor  of  such  automobiles  or  other  motor  pro- 
pelled vehicles." 

A.  B.  376.     Chamberlain.     Identical  with  S.  B.     56.     Finn. 

S.  B.  302.  Breed.  Amending  Section  3088,  Civil  Code,  re- 
lating  to    negotiable   instruments. 

Adds  provision  that  "bonds  payable  to  bearer  shall  be 
negotiable,  notwithstanding  any  condition  contained  therein 
or  in  the  mortgage,  deed  of  trust  or  other  instrument  secur- 
ing the  same". 

A.  B.  3^7.     Satterwhite.     Identical  with  S.  B.  302.     Breed. 

S.  B.  661.  Rush.  Amending  Section  3423,  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  injunctions  to  prevent  the  Reclamation  Board,  or  any  reclama- 
tion district,  levee  district,  swamp  land  district,  drainage  dis- 
trict, municipal  corporation  or  public  agency  from  constructing 
or  maintaining  on  land  which  it  owns  or  over  which  it  has 
a  right  of  way,  and  by-pass,  weir,  levee,  dam,  dike,  embank- 
ment, canal,  ditch,  or  other  work,  approved  by  the  Reclama- 
tion Board,  and  which  carry  out,  or  aid  in  carrying  out,  or 
are  designed  to  carry  out  the  plans  of  the  California  Debris 
Commission  transmitted  to  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  United  States  by  the  Secretary  of  War  on 
the  27th  day  of  June,  1911,  with  such  amendments  and  modi- 
fications as  may  be  adopted  by  the  Reclamation  Board. 

A.   B.   764.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.   B.   661.     Rush. 

S.  B.  651.  Thompson.  To  revise  and  amend  Chapter  VIII 
of  Title  II  of  Part  IV  of  Division  I  of  the  Civil  Code,  relating 
to  mortgage  insurance. 

S.  B.  1192.  Benedict.  To  repeal  Article  3  of  Chapter  III  of 
Title   VII   of  Part  IV  of  the   Civil   Code  of  the   State  of  Cali- 


24  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

fornia,  and  to  enact  a  new  Article  III  of  Chapter  III  of  Title  VII 
of  Part  IV  of  the  Civil  Code  of  the  State  of  California,  relat- 
ing to  bills  of  lading. 

This  is  the  Uniform  Bills  of  Lading  Act,  drafted  by  the 
Commissioners  of  Uniform  State  Laws,  endorsed  by  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  Association  and  the  California  Bar  Association, 
adopted  by  the  Federal  Government  and  most  of  the  states. 

S.  B.  1194.  Benedict.  Repealing  Title  XV  of  Part  IV  of 
Division  III  of  the  Civil  Code  of  the  State  of  California,  and 
to  add  a  new  Title  XV  of  Part  IV  of  Division  III  of  said  Code 
in  place  thereof,  relating  to  negotiable  instruments,  and  to 
make  the  law  of  negotiable  instruments  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia uniform   with  the  laws  of  other  states. 

This  is  the  Uniform  Negotiable  Instruments  Act,  drafted  by 
the  Commissioners  of  Uniform  State  Laws,  endorsed  by  the 
American  Bar  Association  and  the  California  Bar  Association, 
adopted  by  the  Federal  Government  and  most  of  the  states. 

A.    B.    1434.      Gebhart.     Identical   with    S.    B.    1194.      Benedict. 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  35 


CODE    OF    CIVIL    PROCEDURE. 

S.  B.  85.  Slater.  Amending  Section  10,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating-  to  holidays.  Declares  the  12th  of 
February,    "Lincoln    Day,"    a    legal    holiday. 

A.  B.  1143.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  67a,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  Superior  Court  of  Los  Angeles 
County. 

S.  B.  1082.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  67a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  number  of  Superior  Court  judges, 
and  providing  for  the  appointment  of  two  additional  Superior 
Court  judges  in  counties  of  the  first  class,  and  providing  for 
their  compensation, 

Increases  the  number  of  judges  in  Los  Angeles  county  from 
eighteen  to  twenty. 

A.  B.  270.  Ryan.  Amending  Sections  85  and  97,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  justices'  courts  and  justices  of 
the  peace  in  cities  and  counties  of  over  400,000  inhabitants. 

Adds  a  provision  (Sec.  85)  that  each  justice  of  the  peace 
must,  at  the  time  of  his  election,  be  an  elector  of  such  city 
and  county  and  qualified  to  practice  in  all  courts  of  this  State; 
and  (Sec.  97)  increases  the  salary  of  such  justices  of  the 
peace   to   $4200   per   year. 

S.   B.   306.     Crowley.     Identical  with  A.   B.   270.     Ryan. 

A.  B.  269.  Ryan.  Amending  Section  86,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  clerks  of  justices'  courts  in  cities  and  coun- 
ties,   and   repealing  all   Acts   inconsistent   herewith. 

Provides  for  the  appointment  by  the  clerk  of  a  chief  deputy 
and  a  cashier,  at  $1800  per  year  each,  and  three  deputy  clerks 
and  one  messenger  at  $1500  per  year  each. 

S.   B.   308.     Finn.     Identical  with  A.   B.   269.     Ryan. 

A.  B.  83.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  99,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  justices'  courts  and  justices  in  town- 
ships having  population  between  250,000  and  400,000,  by  in- 
creasing the  number  of  justices  from  four  to  six.  This  ap- 
plies   particularly    to   Los    Angeles. 

A.  B.  689.  Phillips.  Amending  Section  101,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  Justices'  courts  and  justices  in  town- 
ships having  a  population  of  250,000  or  over. 

Provides  for  appointment  by  each  justice  of  a  courtroom 
clerk  and   by  the  justices  of  six  deputy  clerks. 

A.  B.  688.  Phillips.  Amending  Section  102b,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  justices'  courts  and  justices  in  town- 
ihips  having  a  population  of  250,000  or  over. 

Increases  the  salary  of  the  clerk  to  $2100,  that  of  the  as- 
sistant clerk  to  $1800,  and  that  of  deputy  clerks  and  court- 
room clerks  to  $1500. 


36  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.  B.  1142.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  102b,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,   relating-  to  salaries  of  justices  and  clerks. 

Increases  the  salary  of  justices  from  $3000  to  $3600,  and  of 
deputy  clerks  from  $1200  to  $1500  per  annum. 

A.  B.  202.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  103,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating    to   justices    of    the    peace. 

Adds  provision  that  whenever  provided  by  law  that  salary 
of  city  justice  of  the  peace  be  paid  by  county  clerk  shall 
make  report  and  pay  over  all  money  collected  as  fines,  for- 
feitures and  fees  to  the  county  auditor  and  county  treasurer 
respectively. 

A.  B.  253.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  103,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  justices'  court  and  justices  and  the 
number  of  justices  in  cities  and  towns  of  various  classes. 

Increases  the  number  of  justices  of  the  peace  in  cities  of  the 
first   and   one-half   class   to   seven. 

A.  B.  1330.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  103,  Code  of 
Civil   Procedure,    relating   to  justices   of   the   peace. 

S.  B.  969.  Benson.  Adding  Section  103a  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  duties  of  clerks  of  certain 
Justices  of  the  Peace. 

A.  B.  1210.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  969.     Benson. 

S.  B.  881.  Luce.  Adding  Section  103b  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  justices'  court  clerk  and  fixing 
the  powers  and  duties. 

A.  B.  203.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  103%,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  clerks  of  justices'  courts  in  cities  or 
towns  of  the  second  and  one-half  class  and  third  class,  and 
appointments,    salaries   and   duties   of   same. 

A.  B.  945.  Phillips.  Adding  Section  104%  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  holding  of  court  by  Justices 
of   the   Peace. 

Requires  every  Justice  of  the  Peace  having  no  clerk  to  be 
in  his  office  for  dispatch  of  official  business  at  least  two  hours 
daily. 

A.  B.  69.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  110,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  term  of  office  of  Justices  of  the  Peace; 
increases  the  term  of  office  to  six  years  from  and  after  12  m. 
on  the  first  Monday  after  the  first  day  of  January  next  suc- 
ceeding  their   election. 

A.  B.  706.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  125,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  private  trial  of  issues  of  fact  in 
certain  cases. 

Strikes    out    the    word    "divorce." 

A.  B.  1458.  Arnerich.  Amending  Section  125,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  private  sittings  of  Courts  of  Justice. 

Strikes  out  actions  of  divorce  and  breach  of  promise  of 
marriage,  and  extends  provisions*  of  section  to  "all  other  cases 


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where  the  question  of  sex  is  involved,  and  in  hearings  of  all 
juvenile  cases",  and  in  such  cases  makes  a  private  hearing 
mandatory. 

A.  B.  705.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  126  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  that  all  hearings  and  trials  in 
actions   for   divorce   shall   in   all   cases   be   open   to   the   public. 

A.  B.  1088.  Ellis.  Amending  Section  130,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating    to    rules    of    courts    of    record. 

Adds  provision  that  rules  adopted  by  County  Inferior  Courts 
shall    take    effect   fifteen    days   after   their    publication. 

A.  B.  432.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  156,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  qualification  of  Justices  of  Supreme 
Court. 

Adds  qualification  "and  shall  have  been  engaged  in  active 
practice  of  law  within  the  State  of  California  for  a  period  of 
not  less  than  10  years  next  preceding  his  election  or  appoint- 
ment." 

A.  B.  433.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  157,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  qualification  of  Superior  Judges. 

A.  B.  893.-  Byrnes.  Adding  Section  188  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  disposition  of  funds  paid 
by  order  of  court. 

Provides  that  money  paid  into  court  shall  be  immediately 
deposited  with  the  Treasurer  and  a  duplicate  receipt  of  the 
Treasurer  filed  with  the  Auditor.  Certificate  of  Auditor  that 
receipt  is  filed  necessary  to  discharge  of  obligation  imposed 
on  County  Clerk  or  person  required  to  make  such  deposit. 
Money  so  deposited  may  be  withdrawn  only  on  order  of  court 
directing  Auditor  to  draw  warrant  therefor. 

S.  B.  597.  Butler.  Amending  Sections  190,  192,  193,  194  and 
195,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  jurors,  and  providing 
for   service   by   women   on   grand  and   trial   juries. 

S.  B.  899.     Birdsall.     Identical  with  (A-  B.   893.     Byrnes. 

A.  B.  1076.  Downing.  Amending  Sections  190,  192,  193,  194 
and   195,   Code  of  Civil   Procedure,   relating   to  jurors. 

A.  B.  29.  McPherson.  Adding  Section  192a  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  service  of  retiring  grand 
jurors    on    the    succeeding   grand    jury    in    the    same    court. 

Provides  that  three  members  of  each  retiring  grand  jury, 
to  be  chosen  by  vote  of  retiring  grand  jury,  shall  serve  on 
succeeding  grand  jury;  no  grand  juror  shall  serve  for  more 
than  two  years  in  succession;  if  any  member  so  elected  fails 
to  qualify  then  the  one  receiving  the  next  highest  number 
of   votes   shall   qualify. 

A.    B.    38.      Ferguson.      Amending    Section   198,    Code    of   Civil 
Procedure,    relating    to    qualifications    of   jurors. 
Eliminates    property    qualifications. 
A.   B.   59.     McDonald,  W.  A.     Amending   Section  198,   Code  of 


38  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Civil  Procedure,  by  substituting  in  lieu  of  the  property  qual- 
ification, a  provision  that  the  names  of  the  persons  selected 
shall  be  on  the  Great  Register. 

A.  B.  789.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  198,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to   persons  competent   to   act  as  jurors. 

A.  B.  1449.  Downing.  Amending  Section  198,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  qualifications   of  jurors. 

Includes  both  sexes,  strikes  out  property  qualification  and 
provides  that  any  person  whose  name  appears  in  the  great 
register  is  eligible. 

A.  B.  115.  McPherson.  Amending  Sections  199  and  200, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  classification  of  per- 
sons incompetent  to  act  as  jurors,  and  to  exemptions  from 
jury   duty. 

Rearranges  without  changing  effect  of  Section  199,  and 
makes  change  in  verbiage  in  Section  200,  Subdivision  13,  with- 
out altering  effect. 

S.  B.  196.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  200,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  designating  persons  who  are  exempt  from  jury  duty. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  12  "a  superintendent  or  zanjero  in  the 
employ  of  a  water  company",  and  provides  also  for  the  ex- 
emption for  one  year  of  any  person  on  the  regular  trial  jury 
panel  of  any  court  of  record  after  he  has  remained  thereon 
for  three  months,  this  exemption  not  to  apply  in  counties  of 
less   than   100,000   population. 

A.    B.    245.     Chamberlin.     Identical   with   S.   B.    196.      Ballard. 

S.  B.  659.  Benson.  Amending  Section  200,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  exemptions  from  liability  to  act  as  a  juror. 

Includes  railroad  firemen  in  subdivision  12. 

A.  B.  1130.  Mouser.  Amending  Section  200,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  designating  persons  who  are  exempt  from  jury  duty. 

Includes  in  subdivision  10,  superintendents,  employees  or 
operators  of  electric  light  and  gas  companies;  and  provides,  in 
subdivision  12,  that  a  person  on  a  regular  jury  panel,  after 
serving  three  months  thereon,  shall  be  exempt  for  one  year 
from  the  time  he  was  placed  on  the  panel. 

A.  B.  1075.  Downing.  Amending  Section  201,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  excusing  of  jurors  from  the  duty  of 
serving. 

A.  B.  1384.  Dennett.  Amending  Sections  204,  205,  206,  207, 
209,  210,  211,  adding  thereto  Sections  212  and  213,  and  repeal- 
ing Section  208,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  selec- 
tion and   return  of  jurors  for  courts  of  record. 

Provides  (Sec.  204)  that  in  January  of  each  year  County 
Clerk  in  each  city  and  county  or  county  shall  prepare  list  of 
all  persons  eligible,  suitable  and  competent  to  serve  as  jurors, 
who  are  on  last  preceding  assessment  roll,  and  file  same  at 
his    office,    writing   the    names    on    separate   pieces   of   paper   of 


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same  size  and  appearance  and  folding  all  alike  so  as  to  con- 
ceal name  thereon,  and  deposit  slips  in  trial  jury  box.  Such 
persons  (Sec.  205)  shall  serve  for  one  year  and  until  new 
list  is  compiled,  except  that  when  any  persons  are  drawn  to 
serve  in  any  trial  they  shall  be  eligible  to  serve  for  30  days 
only.  Persons  selected  (Sec.  206)  shall  be  such  as  are  suitable 
and  competent,  on  last  preceding  assessment  roll,  not  exempt 
from  serving,  and  who  are  in  possession  of  natural  faculties, 
not  infirm  or  decrepit,  of  fair  character  and  approved  integrity, 
and  of  sound  judgment.  Persons  drawn  (Sec.  207)  as  trial 
jurors  shall  serve  for  one  period  only  of  30  days,  except  where 
entire  list  is  exhausted  in  trial  of  cases,  in  which  event  entire 
list  of  jurors  shall  be  replaced  in  trial  jury  box  and  used 
again.  Section  209  is  in  practically  the  same  language  as 
present  Section  204,  except  that  it  relates  to  grand  jurors  only. 
List  of  grand  jurors  (Sec.  210)  shall  contain  only  number  of 
persons  designated  in  court's  order,  and  shall  be  selected  from 
different  wards  or  townships  in  proportion  to  number  of  in- 
habitants as  nearly  as  same  can  be  estimated,  said  lists  to 
be  kept  separate  one  from  the  other.  Certified  list  (Sec.  211) 
of  persons  selected  to  serve  as  grand  jurors  shall  at  once  be 
placed  in  possession  of  and  filed  with  County  Clerk.  On 
receiving  list  (Sec.  212)  County  Clerk  shall  write  names  on 
slips  and  place  in  grand  jury  box.  Names  of  persons  drawn 
for  grand  jurors  (Sec.  213)  shall  be  drawn  from  grand  jury 
box,  and  those  who  have  not  been  drawn  to  serve  as  grand 
jurors  may  be  placed  on  list  of  grand  jurors  for  succeeding 
year. 

A.  B.  58.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  205,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  selection  and  listing  of  jurors, 
by  omitting  the  requirement  that  persons-  selected  for  jury 
service  shall  be  on  the  assessment  roll. 

S.  B.  75.  Duncan.  Adding  Section  205a  (new),  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  verification  of  the  qualifier 
tions  of  jurors.  Provides  that  prior  to  filing  lists  of  jurors 
the  names  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Tax  Collector  for  a 
report  as  to  whether  or  not  they  are  on  the  assessment  roll. 
Other  names  shall  be  substituted  for  those  not  on  assess- 
ment  roll. 

A.  B.  1074.  Downing.  Amending  Section  206,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  number  of  names  which  lists  of 
jurors  shall  contain. 

Adds  provision  that  lists  shall  contain  names  of  men  and 
women    in    equal    numbers. 

A.  B.  1385.  Dennett.  Amending  Sections  214  and  215,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relative  to  the  drawing  of  jurors  for  courts 
of  records. 

Adds   to   Section   214   provision   that   where   business   of   court 


40  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

requires  attendance  of  trial  jurors  for  more  than  30  days  new 
trial  jurors  shall  be  drawn  every  30  days  until  business  dis- 
posed of.  Provides  also  (Sec.  215)  that  drawing  shall  be  in 
"open  court"  instead  of  "in  the  presence  of  the  court",  as  at 
present. 

S.  B.  377.  Shearer.  Amending  Section  225,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  manner  of  serving  jurors  by  the  sheriff. 

Adds:    "or  by  mailing  such  notice   by   registered   mail." 

S.  B.  74.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  227,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  summoning  jurors  to  complete  a 
panel  and  the  duties  of  the  officers  summoning  the  same. 
Provides  that  persons  so  summoned  must  answer  under 
oath  to  the  sheriff  or  elisor  questions  touching  their  citizen- 
ship, knowledge  of  the  English  language,  whether  or  not 
they  are  on  the  last  assessment  roll;  whether  they  have 
served  or  been  discharged  as  grand  or  trial  jurors  within 
one  year;  whether  if  they  are  members  of  the  National 
Guard,  the  paid  fire  department  or  exempt  members  of  a 
duly  organized  fire  company,  they  claim  their  exemption 
from  jury  duty.  If  the  answers  establish  that  the  juror  is 
not  qualified  his  name  must  not  be  included  in  the  return. 
All  officers  summoning  jurors  are  authorized  to  administer 
the    necessary    oath. 

A.  B.  821.  Rominger.  Repealing  Sections  230,  231  and  232, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  summoning  of  jurors 
of  courts   not   of   record. 

A.  B.  1158.  Gebhart  (by  request).  Amending  Section  231, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  summoning  of  jurors 
in   justice   courts,    police   courts   or   other   inferior   courts. 

Provides  that  jurors  may  be  summoned  by  notifying  them 
in  writing  delivered  personally  or  through  the  United  States 
mail. 

A.  B.  820.  Rominger.  Adding  Sections  233,  233a,  233b,  233c, 
233d,  233e,  233f  and  233g  (new)  to  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure, 
relating  to  the  listing,  drawing  and  summoning  of  jurors  for 
courts    not    of    record. 

S.  B.  589.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  241,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to   grand  jurors. 

Requires  the  drawing  of  two  grand  juries  in  each  year  in 
all   counties   having   three   or   more   Superior   Court  judges. 

A.  B.  1409.  Canepa  (by  request).  Amending  Section  259, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,,  relating  to  the  powers  of  Court  Com- 
missioners. 

Omits  from  subdivision  3  the  clause:  "and  to  take  acknowl- 
edgments and  proof  of  deeds,  mortgages,  and  other  instru- 
ments requiring  proof  or  acknowledgment  for  any  purpose  under 
the   law  of  this   State". 


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S.  B.  121.  Scott.  Amending  Section  274,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure,   relating   to    official    reporters. 

Provides  that  official  reporters  shall  be  paid  by  the  county, 
or  city  and  county,  "such  fees  and  compensation  as  the  Board 
of   Supervisors   shall   fix  and   determine." 

A.   B.   183.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  g.   B.   121.     Scott. 

S.  B.  1044.  Thompson  (by  request).  Amending  Section  274 
and  repealing  Section  274b,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  both 
relating  to  and  fixing  the  fees  to  be  received  by  official  re- 
porters  of   the   Superior   Court. 

Provides  that  for  transcribing,  the  reporter  shall  receive 
for  one  copy  10  cents  per  folio,  for  two  copies  8  cents  per 
folio,  for  three  copies  6  cents  per  folio,  and  for  four  or  more 
copies  5  cents  per  folio. 

S.  B.  627.  Luce.  Amending  Section  274b,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  fees  charged  by  phonographic  re- 
porters in  transcribing  evidence. 

Fixes  compensation  for  making  an  original  and  three  carbon 
copies,  in  any  criminal  case,  10  cents  a  folio,  provided  he  shall 
receive  no  compensation  unless  testimony  has  been  transcribed 
by  him  within  time  provided  by  law. 

A.  B.  808.  McKnight.  Amending  Section  276,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  testimonials  examination  before  Dis- 
trict Court  of  Appeal. 

Adds  that,  in  addition  to  satisfactory  testimonials  of  good 
moral  character,  the  applicant  must  produce  proof  of  having 
studied  law  in  a  law  school,  or  in  the  office  of  an  attorney 
at  law  for  three  years,  and  of  having  the  equivalent  of  a  high 
school  education,  and  undergo  a  strict  examination  in  open 
court,  part  of  which  must  be  in  writing,  as  to  his  qualifications 
by  the  justices  of  one  of  the  District  Courts  of  Appeal. 

S.  B.  82.  Jones.  Amending  Sections  276,  277  and  279, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  and  adding  Sections  276a,  276b 
and  276c  (new),  relating  to  the  admission  and  license  of 
attorneys  and  counsellors  at  law,  and  making  an  appro- 
priation   to   carry   out   the   purposes   of   this   Act. 

Provides  (Sec.  276)  three  years'  study  and  passing  of  ex- 
amination by  State  Board  of  Law  Examiners  as  qualifica- 
tion   for   admission    to   practice   law. 

Provides  (Section  276a,  new)  for  the  appointment  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  a  board  of  three  attorneys  of  at  least  5 
years'  active  practice,  to  hold  office  at  the  court's  pleasure, 
to  act  as  a  Board  of  State  Law  Examiners,  who  shall 
receive  $750  each  per  year  as  salary,  in  addition  to  actual 
necessary  traveling  expenses,  not  to  exceed  in  the  aggregate 
for  the  board  $750  a  year.  The  board  may  appoint  a 
secretary  at  $100  per  annum,  and  is  allowed  $1000  per 
annum    for    other    necessary    expenses,    including    office    rent. 


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Applicants  shall  pay  (Sec.  276b)  such  examination  fee  as 
may  be  fixed  by  the  Supreme  Court,  to  be  paid  into  the 
State  treasury,  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  board  of 
examiners,  but  one  examination  fee  shall  entitle  the  appli- 
cant   to   the   privilege    of    not    exceeding    two    examinations. 

Rules  and  regulat  ons  (Sec.  276c)  shall  be  made  by  the 
Supreme  Court  rela*  ng  to  qualifications  of  applicants,  course 
of  study,  time,  method  and  scope  of  examinations,  but  the 
examinations  must  consist,  in  whole  or  in  part,  of  a  written 
test   of   the    learning   and    capacity   of   the   applicants. 

Upon  presentation  of  the  necessary  evidence  (Sec.  277) 
any  District  Court  of  Appeal  may  admit  the  applicant  to 
practice,  and  direct  the  issuance  of  a  certificate  by  the 
clerk. 

Every  citizen  of  the  United  States  or  person  resident  in 
this  State  (Sec.  279),  who  has  bona  fide  declared  his  in- 
tention to  become  a  citizen,  who  has  been  admitted  to 
practice  law  in  the  highest  court  of  another  State,  or  of  a 
foreign  country,  where  the  common  Ifcw  of  England  is  the 
basis  of  jurisprudence,  and  who  has  been  engaged  in  actual 
practice  therein  for  at  least  3  years  may  be  admitted  to 
practice  by  any  District  Court  of  Appeal  upon  production  of 
his  license  and  satisfactory  evidence  that  it  has  not  been 
revoked,  that  he  is  of  good  moral  character,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  actual  practice  for  at  least  three  years;  but 
the  court  may  examine  the  applicant  as  to  his  qualifications. 
All  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  repealed, 
but  nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  as  a  repeal  or 
modification  of  Sections  280a  or  280b,  or  any  other  existing 
law  relating  to  the  admission  of  graduates  of  law  schools, 
nor  as  depriving  any  Court  of  Appeal  of  the  right  to  require 
an  examination  of  any  applicant  as  to  his  qualifications 
when  deemed  proper.  (S.  B.  291,  Jones;  Pending  Legislation, 
1913,    p.    76.) 

A.  B.  226.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  280,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,   relating  to  licenses   to  practice  law. 

Extends  to  graduates  of  Saint  Ignatius  University  the  right 
to  be  admitted  to  practice  law  without   examination. 

S.   B.   268.      Scott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   226.     Prendergast. 

S.  B.  693.     Wolfe.     Identical  with  A.  B.  226.     Prendergast. 

S.  B.  643.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  300  (new)  to  the 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  costs  in  proceedings  for 
the  removal  and  suspension  of  attorney*. 

Provides  that  such  costs  shall  be  a  charge  upon  the  county. 

S.  B.  131.  Thompson  (by  request).  Amending  Section  323, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  defining  adverse  possession  under 
written  instrument  of  judgment. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  2  the  provision  "or,   if  not  so  inclosed, 


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when  all  county  and  city  taxes  and  assessments  on  the  land 
for  a  period  of  ten  years  have  been  heretofore,  or  shall  here- 
after be,  paid  by  such  person  claiming  title  thereto,  or  by  his 
privies." 

A.  B.  1379.  Wright,  H.  W.  Identical  with  S.  B.  131.  Thomp- 
son. 

A.  B.  768.  Dennett.  Adding  Section  329  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  of  commencing  actions 
based  upon  a  claim  of  riparian  rights. 

Provides  that  no  action  based  on  an  allegation  or  claim  of 
riparian  rights  can  be  maintained  unless  commenced  within 
six  months  after  commencement  of  construction  of  works  al- 
leged to  interfere  with  flow  of  stream  upon  which  riparian 
rights  are  claimed;  does  not  apply  where  water  is  being  put  to 
beneficial  use  or  is  in  process  of  being  so  applied  with  reason- 
able diligence  considering  magnitude  of  work;  section  shall  not 
be  construed  as  permitting  diversion  from  one  watershed  to 
another. 

S.  B.  224.  Scott  (by  request).  Amending  Section  337,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  time  within  which  certain  ac- 
tions must  be  commenced. 

Omits  from  Subdivision  1  the  provision  added  in  1906  to 
protect  the  rights  of  action  that  would  expire  between  June 
1,   1906,   and  January  1,   1907. 

A.   B.   228.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S.   B.   224.     Scott. 

A.  B.  1140.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  337,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  time  of  commencing  actions. 

S.  B.  223.  Scott  (by  request).  Adding  Section  337a  (new), 
to  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  when  an 
action  upon  an  open  book  account  accrues. 

Provides  where  an  open  book  account  consists  of  more  than 
one  item  cause  of  action  deemed  to  have  accrued  from  time 
of  last  item  proved. 

A.   B.   229.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S\   B.   223.     Scott. 

A.  B.  880.  Pettis.  Amending  Section  344,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  time  within  which  certain  actions  must 
be  commenced. 

Includes  actions  on  an   open  book  account. 

S.  B.  921.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  348,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  limitation  of  actions  brought  to 
recover  money  or  other  property  deposited  with  any  bank, 
banker,  trust  company  or  savings  and  loan  society,  by  includ- 
ing therein  building  and  loan  associations. 

A.   B.    1332.     Dennett.     Identical  with   S.    B.   921.      Strobridge. 

S.  B.  662.  Rush.  Amending  Section  394,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  place  of  trial  of  actions,  and  provid- 
ing where  actions  to  prevent  work,  approved  by  the  Recla- 
mation Board,   to  carry  out  the  plans  of  the  California  Debris 


44  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Commission,  transmitted  to  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
•Representatives  of  the  United  States  by  the  Secretary  of 
War  on  June  27,  1911,  with  such  amendments  and  modifica- 
tions as  may  be  approved  by  the  Reclamation  Board,  shall 
be  commenced  and  tried,  for  the  transfer  of  such  actions,  and 
making   the   Reclamation   Board   defendants   on  such  actions. 

A.   B.   765.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.  B.   662.     Rush. 

S.  B.  1045.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  394,  Code  ol 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  place  of  trial  of  actions. 

Cities  and  counties  are  included;  and  a  provision  is  added 
that  an  action  instituted  by  a  county,  city  and  county  or  city 
may  be  commenced  and  tried  in  any  county  or  city  and  county, 
subject  to  defendant's  right  to  a  change  of  venue.  This  sec- 
tion shall  aply  to  actions  now  pending  or  hereafter  brought. 

A.  B.  1243.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1045.     Thompson. 

S.  B.  717.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  396,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  change  of  place  of  trial  to  the 
proper  county. 

S.  B.  1196.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  398,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  disqualification  of  Judges  of  the 
Superior  Court. 

Makes   the  section   apply  only  to   Superior  Courts. 

A.  B.  933.  Rutherford.  Amending  Sections  398  and  399,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  transfer  of  actions. 

Provides  (Sec.  398)  for  transfers  from  Police  Courts  exer- 
cising- civil  jurisdiction,  and  (Sec.  399)  includes  a  police  judge 
and;:  requires  all  fees  and  costs  accruing  after  transfer  to. 
inure  to  benefit  of  jurisdiction  to  which  transferred. 

S;  B.  133.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  411,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,'  relative  to  the  manner  of  serving  summons  in 
civil   actions. 

Provides  "(S'ubd.  1)  if  suit  is  against  a  corporation,  "joint 
stock  company  or  association  to  the  person  designated  as  the 
one  upon  whom  process  may  be  served  as  provided  in  Section 
405,  Civil  Code;  and  eliminates  Subdivision  2,  relating  to  for- 
eign  corporations,  "from   the   present   section. 

A.  B.  118.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  411,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  service  of  summons,  writ,  notice,  or 
other  paper  necessary  or  proper  in  the  course  of  judicial  pro- 
ceedings. 

Adds  to  Subdivisions  1  and  2  that,  in  case  of  domestic  and 
foreign  corporations,  or  non-resident  joint  stock  companies 
or  ; associations,  beside  the  president  or  other  head  of  the 
concern,  secretary,  cashier  or  managing  agent,  summons  may 
be*  served  on  any  ticket  agent,  freight  agent  or  other  agent 
of  such  corporation,  etc.,  found  within  the  county  where 
action  has  been  commenced  and  summons  issued,  and  any 
other  .process,    writ,    notice   or   paper   may    be    so    served;    but 


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if  party  be  represented  by  attorney  of  record,  in  such 
action,    then   on   such   attorney. 

A.  B.  380.  Avey.  Amending  Section  413,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  service  of  summons,  and  making  clear 
the  intent  of  the  law  regarding  the  service  of  summons  on  non- 
residents. 

Provides  that  where  publication  is  ordered  and  court  directs 
mailing  of  complaint  and  summons  to  known  address  of  de- 
fendant, "the  service  of  summons  is  complete  at  expiration  of 
time  prescribed  by  order  for  publication,  a,nd  that  when  per- 
sonal service  is  made  outside  of  the  State,  service  is  complete, 
and  defendant  shall  have  30  days  thereafter  within  which  to 
appear. 

A.  B.  44.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  427,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  what  causes  of  action  may  be  joined 
by  omitting  the  last  paragraph  of  the  section  as  amended 
(Stats.    1913,    p.    219). 

A.  B.  610.  Manning.  Amending  Section  437,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  what  an  answer  shall  contain. 

A.  B.  916.  Conard.  Amending  Section  437,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  contents  of  the  answer  of  the  de- 
fendant,  by  omitting  the  last  paragraph. 

S.  B.  287.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  441,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating    to    answers. 

Adds  a  provision  "that  the  admission  of  a  fact  in  any  de- 
fense inconsistent  with  any  denial,  or  allegation  in  the  answer, 
shall  operate  to  make  such  denial  or  allegation  ineffectual". 

S.  B.  639.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  442,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating   to   cross-complaints. 

Strikes  out  the  words  "to  the  action"  after  the  word  party, 
in  the  second  line. 

S.  B.  1047.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  454,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  pleading  accounts  and  bills  of  par- 
ticulars. 

Adds  provision  that  the  court  may  in  any  case  direct  a  bill 
of  particulars  of  claim  of  either  party  to  be  delivered  to  ad- 
verse party. 

S.  B.  425.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  475,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  by  providing  that  in  certain  cases  on  appeal,  the 
Appellate  Court  may  disregard  errors  of  the  trial  court  and 
determine  substantial  rights  upon  the  record. 

S.  B.  904.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  475,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure  and  providing  that  in  certain  cases  on  appeal  the 
Appellate  Court  may  disregard  errors  of  the  trial  court  and 
determine  substantial  rights  upon  the  record. 

Adds  provision  that  in  all  cases  on  appeal  tried  in  Superior 
Court  without  jury  where  testimony  is  preserved  in  bill  of 
exceptions  or  statement  sufficiently  to  enable  Appellate  Court 


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to  do  substantial  justice  between  parties,  Appellate  Court  may 
disregard  any  orders,  rulings,  findings  or  want  of  findings, 
and  upon  consideration  of  whole  record  on  appeal,  may  affirm, 
reverse  or  modify  order,  judgment  or  decree  of  court  below  or 
enter  such  order,  judgment  or  decree  as  may  be  agreeable 
to  justice. 

S.  B.  660.  Rush.  Amending  Section  529,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, requiring  counties  and  municipal  corporations  to  give 
security  on  the  granting  of  an  injunction  or  restraining  order 
to  prevent  the  Reclamation  Board  of  the  State  of  California, 
or  any  reclamation  district,  levee  district,  swamp  land  district, 
drainage  district,  municipal  corporation  or  public  agency  from 
building,  constructing  or  maintaining  on  land  which  it  owns 
or  over  which  it  has  an  easement  or  right  of  way,  any  by- 
pass, weir,  levee,  dam,  dike,  embankment,  canal,  ditch  or 
other  work,  approved  by  the  Reclamation  Board,  and  which 
carries  out  or  aids  in  carrying  out,  or  is  designed  to  carry 
out,  the  plans  of  the  California  Debris  Commission,  trans- 
mitted to  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  by  the  Secretary  of  War  on  the  27th  day  of 
June,  1911,  with  such  modifications  and  amendments  as  may 
be  adopted   by  the  Reclamation  Board. 

A.  B.   766.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.   B.   660.     Rush. 

A.  B.  328.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  534  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  actions  concerning  water  rights. 

A.  B.  149.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  538,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  attachments  in  civil  actions,  and 
providing   what   the   affidavit   for   attachment   shall   contain. 

Omits  Subdivisions  2  and  3  as  in  present  Section  and  adds 
the  following  facts  that  may  be  shown:  That  defendant  is  a 
foreign  corporation,  or  not  a  resident  of  this  State,  or  con- 
ceals himself,  or  has  abandoned  or  absents  himself  from  his 
usual  place  of  abode  in  this  State,  so  that  ordinary  process 
cannot  be  served  upon  him,  or  has  or  is  about  to  remove 
any  of  his  property  from  the  State,  or  has  assigned,  secreted 
or  disposed  of  his  property,  or  is  about  to  do  so,  with  intent 
to  delay  or  defraud  his  creditors  or  is  about  to  convert  his 
property  or  portion  thereof  into  money  for  purpose  of  plac- 
ing it  beyond  reach  of  his  creditors;  or  has  been  guilty  of 
fraud  in  contracting  the  debt  or  incurring  obligation  for 
which   action   is   brought. 

S.  B.  235.  Jones.  Amending  Section  542a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  attachment  liens. 

A.  B.  45.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  543,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  written  instructions  to  be  given  to 
Sheriff   on    attachment. 

Provides  that  any  person  holding  such  credits,  or  other 
personal    property,    when    served    with   attachment,    deliver    to 


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Sheriff  a  statement  thereof  or  amount  owing  defend- 
ant, which  Sheriff  must  keep  available  for  plaintiff  and  his 
attorney  but  no  one  else.  Any  person  who,  after  demand 
by  Sheriff,  refuses  such  statement  or  account,  shall  be  liable 
to  plaintiff  for  all  costs  and  expenses  incurred  by  him  in 
obtaining  such  statement  or  account,  together  with  reasonable 
fee  for  plaintiff's  attorney,  which  can  be  collected  in  separate 
action. 

S.  B.  312.  Ballard.  Amending  Sections  544  and  545,  Code  of 
Civil    Procedure,    relating    to    garnishment. 

Provides  (Sec.  544),  as  to  debts  owing  to  defendant,  "which 
at  the  time  of  the  service  upon  them  of  a  copy  of  the  writ 
and  notice,  as  provided  in  the  last  two  sections  are  then  due 
or  thereafter  become  due",  and  (Sec.  545)  any  persons  owing 
debts   "as  described  in   Section   544,   Code   of  Civil  Procedure". 

A.  B.  70.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  557a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  allowance  of  attorney's  fees 
upon  motion  for  the  dissolution  of  a  writ  of  attachment  levied 
on  property  exempt  from   execution. 

Requires  court  to  allow  prevailing  party  on  motion  to  dis- 
solve attachment  made  on  ground  property  was  exempt  from 
execution  under  Section  690,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  $15  at- 
torney's fees  as  part  of  costs. 

S.  B.  4.  Breed.  Amending  Section  570,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  disposition  of  unclaimed  funds  in  the 
hands   of   a   receiver. 

Provides  that  such  funds  covered  into  the  State  treasury 
"shall  be  paid  out  by  the  State  Treasurer  to  the  owner  thereof 
or  his  order  upon  receiving  satisfactory  evidence  of  the  iden- 
tity of  such  owner". 

S.  B.  1100.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  583,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relative  to  the  dismissal  of  actions  in  certain  cases. 

Adds  provision  that  in  absence  of  stipulation  extending  time 
action  shall  be  dismissed  by  court  upon  ex  parte  motion  of 
defendant,  or  of  any  other  person  interested  in  subject-matter 
of  action,  unless  action  is  brought  to  trial  within  five  years 
after  defendant   has   filed   his   answer. 

S.  B.  626.  Luce.  Amending  Section  585,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure,   referring   to  judgment   upon   failure   to   answer. 

Adds  a  new  subdivision  (4)  providing  that  in  all  cases 
affecting  title  to  or  possession  of  real  property,  where  service 
of  summons  was  by  publication  and  defendant  failed  to  answer, 
no  judgment  shall  be  rendered  upon  mere  proof  of  occupancy, 
unless  such  occupancy  covered  such  time  as  would  confer 
title  by  prescription,  and  where  plaintiff  bases  claim  upon 
paper  title  court  shall  require  title  to  be  established  by  com- 
petent evidence,  provided  that  in  actions  involving  merely 
possession  where  complaint   is  verified  and  shows  no  party  to 


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action  claims  title  to  property,  but  only  possession  thereof, 
court  may  render  judgment  on  proof  of  occupancy  by  plaintiff 
and  ouster  by  defendant. 

S.  B.  146.  Scott.  Amending  Section  592,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure,  relating  to   trials  by  jury. 

Provides  that  all  actions  where  issues  of  fact  are  raised  by 
pleadings  shall  be  tried  by  jury,  if  within  5  days  after  filing 
of  answer  any  of  parties  file  written  demand  for  jury.  Verdict 
of  jury  on  any  of  issues  shall  determine  fact  for  all  purposes 
including  appeal.  If  no  jury  is  demanded  as  herein  provided 
or  no  other  provision  of  law  requires  jury  trial,  issues  may 
be  determined  by  judge. 

A.   B.   180.     McDonald,   J.   J.     Identical  with   S.   B.   146.     Scott. 

S.  B.  120.  Scott.  Adding  Section  592a  (new)  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  fees  and  expenses  of  jurors 
by  providing  that  all  fees  and  expenses  of  the  jury  in  cases 
under  Section  592,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  shall  be  paid  by 
the   county  or   city  and   county. 

A.   B.   181.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.   120.     Scott. 

A.  B.  361.  Downing.  Adding  Section  599  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  payment  of  fees  and  mile- 
age of  jurors  in  civil  actions,  and  providing  that  fees  and 
mileage  of  jurors  in  civil  actions  shall  be  paid  by  the  county 
in  which  the  action  is  pending  in  the  same  manner  as  in 
criminal   cases. 

A.  B.  120.  Scott,  Chas.  E.  Amending  Section  601,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure  of  the  State  of  California  relating  to  chal- 
lenge of  jurors. 

Inserts  provision  "unless  it  appear  from  pleadings  or  other- 
wise that  the  interests  of  the  parties  upon  the  same  side  are 
conflicting,"  in  which  instance  each  party  shall  be  treated  as 
a  separate  party  and  shall  be  entitled  to  challenge  without 
the  other  party  or  parties  upon  the  same  side  whose  interests 
are    conflicting   joining  in   the    challenges. 

S.   B.   200.     Ballard.     Identical  with  A.   B.   120.     Scott. 

A.  B.  919.  Conard.  Amending  Section  601,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  challenges  of  jurors  to  which  the 
parties  are  entitled  and  the  number  of  challenges  to  which  the 
parties  are  entitled. 

Allows  six  peremptory  challenges. 

S.  B.  179.  Luce.  Adding  Section  602a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  examining,  challenging  and 
excusing   jurors. 

Provides  that  court,  without  aid  of  counsel,  shall  ascertain 
whether  any  general  or  particular  cause  of  challenge  prescribed 
by  Sections  1072,  1073  and  1074,  Penal  Code,  exists  against  any 
juror,  and  if  such  exist,  juror  must  be  excused.  During 
examination    of   jurors    by    court,    counsel   may   interpose    chal- 


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lenges  and  may  examine  juror  within  reasonable  limits  fixed 
by  court.  After  twelve  jurors  have  been  called  against  whom 
no  general  or  particular  cause  of  challenge  has  been  allowed, 
counsel  shall  have  right  of  examination  for  purpose  of  deter- 
mining exercise  of  peremptory  challenges,  within  such  rea- 
sonable limits  as  court  in  its  discretion,  shall  determine.  No 
reversal  on  appeal  shall  be  predicated  on  any  ruling  under 
this   section   except   for   gross   abuse   of   discretion. 

A.  B.  917.  Conard.  Adding  Section  603a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  examination  and  hearing 
of  jurors  challenged  for  cause. 

Provides  that  examination  of  any  juror  challenged  for  cause 
shall  be  conducted  exclusively  by  the  court  and  soundness  of 
challenge  inquired  into  and  settled  by  court  alone.  Juror  chal- 
lenged and  any  other  person  suggested  by  parties  may  be  ex- 
amined on  trial  of  challenge. 

A.  B.  918.  Conard.  Amending  Section  608,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  scope  of  the  charge  of  the  court  to 
the  jury  and  the  obligations  of  the  court  relative  thereto. 

Permits   court   to   comment   in   charge   on   evidence   adduced. 

S.  B.  976.  Flint.  Amending  Section  643,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  the  order  in  which  debts  must  be  paid,  and 
fixing  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  on  demands  against 
estates  of  decedents. 

Strikes  out  of  the  last  paragraph  at  beginning  of  last  sen- 
tence the  words   "if  the  estate  is  insolvent." 

S.  B.  488.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  650,  Code  of  CiviJ 
Procedure,   relating  to  exceptions. 

S.  B.  577.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  656,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  new  trials  and  appeals. 

Abolishes  appeal  from  order  denying  or  granting  a  new  trial 
and  makes  all  rulings  heretofore  reviewable  on  such  appeal 
reviewable  on  appeal  from  judgment.  Notice  of  intention  to 
move  for  new  trial  and  of  hearing  thereof,  for  any  cause 
except  newly  discovered  evidence,  may  be  joined  and  must  be 
served  within  10  days  after  entry  of  judgment  or  order;  and 
time  for  hearing  must  not  exceed  10  days  from  filing  of  notice. 
No  statement  of  bill  of  exceptions  is  necessary;  such  motion 
must  be  heard  and  submitted  within  10  days  after  hearing, 
and  must  be  decided  within  35  days  after  entry  of  judgment 
or  order;  if  not  so  decided,  then  motion  to  be  deemed  denied; 
time  of  appeal  from  judgment  shall  not  begin  to  run  until 
motion  for  new  trial  is  determined;  times  fixed  herein  shall 
not  be  extended;  motions  for  new  trial  because  of  newly 
discovered  evidence  may  be  made  upon  10  days'  notice,  which 
must  be  served  and  filed  within  90  days  after  entry  of  judg- 
ment or  order,  but  no  notice  of  intention  need  be  given; 
affidavits  to  be  used  on  hearing  must  be  served  and  filed  with 


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notice;  appeal  may  be  taken  from  order  denying  or  granting 
such  motion,  but  pendency  of  such  motion,  or  right  thereto, 
or  of  appeal  from  order  made  thereon,  shall  not  delay  execu- 
tion or  proceedings  on  judgment,  or  prevent  same  from  be- 
coming final;  court  may  order  a  stay  of  proceedings;  after 
appeal  appellate   court  shall  have  like   power. 

A.   B.   1118.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.   577.     Kehoe. 

A.  B.  905.  Schmitt  (by  request).  Amending  Section  657, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  when  a  new  trial  may  be 
granted. 

Adds  a  provision  that  no  fact  tried  and  determined  by  a 
jury  shall  be  re-examined  in  or  set  aside  by  any  court  of 
this  State,  and  no  court  or  judge  shall  weigh  the  evidence 
or  decide  the  conflict  or  contradictions  of  testimony  or  evi- 
dence  contrary   to   such   verdict. 

S.    B.    964.     Beban.     Identical  with  A.    B.   905.     Schmitt. 

S.  B.  489.  Jones.  Amending  Sections  658,  659  and  660, 
and  repealing  Sections  661  and  662,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure, 
all    relating    to    new    trials. 

Provides  (Sec.  658)  for  motion  for  new  trial  on  affidavits  or 
on  minutes  of  court  only;  permits  extensions  of  20  days  (Sec. 
659)  only  to  either  party  to  file  affidavits,  and  eliminates  pres- 
ent  Subdivisions  2,  3  and  4,  relating  to  bills  of  exceptions, 
statement  of  case  and  minutes  of  court,  respectively;  and  that 
(Sec.  660)  a  motion  for  new  trial  shall  be  heard  at  earliest 
practicable  time  and  has  precedence;  power  of  court  to  pass 
on  new  trial  shall  expire  within  three  months  after  verdict  of 
service  of  notice  of  decision,  and  if  not  determined  within 
three  months  shall  be  deemed  denied.  (S.  B.  610.  Kehoe. 
"Pending    Legislation,    1913,    p.    85). 

Section  661,  relating  to  records  on  appeal,  and  Section  662, 
relating  to  new  trial  on  court's  own  motion,  are  repealed. 

A.   B.   682.     Fish.     Identical   with  S.   B.   489.     Jones. 

S.  B.  578.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  658,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating   to   new   trials. 

Provides  in  last  clause  that  motion  for  new  trial  "for  any 
other  cause  may  be  made  either  with  or  without  a  bill  of 
exceptions  or  statement  of  the  case  prepared  and  settled  before 
the  hearing". 

A.  B.  1117.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.  578.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  579.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  660,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure,  relating  to   new  trials. 

Strikes   out   the   first   sentence   of   present   section. 

A.  B.   1119.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.   579.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  576.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  661,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  new  trials  and   appeals. 

Adds  to  first  paragraph  provision  that  if  motion  is  made 
for  insufficiency  of  evidence  or  that  decision  is  against  law, 


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or  for  errors  at  trial  and  no  bill  of  exceptions  or  statement 
was  used  on  hearing,  a  bill  of  exceptions  to  be  subsequently 
prepared  and  settled  shall  constitute  a  part  of  record  to  be 
used  on  appeal  from  order  denying-  motion  for  new  trial.  All 
matter  not  pertinent  to  specifications  of  particulars  filed  pur- 
suant to  subdivision  3  of  Section  656  shall  be  excluded.  Time 
shall  not  be  extended  beyond  60  days  respectively,  except  for 
good    cause    shown. 

A.   B.   1120.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.   576.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  490.  Jones.  Amending  Section  663a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  setting  aside  of  a  judgment  of  the 
Superior  Court  and  the  rendition  of  a  new  judgment  without 
a  new  trial. 

A.   B.   683.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.   B.   490.     Jones. 

A.  B.  1141.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  671,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  judgment  lien. 

Extends  the  continuance  of  the  lien  from  five  to  ten  years. 

A.  B.  660.  Spengler.  Amending  Subdivision  4  of  Section 
690,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  property  exempt 
from    execution. 

Includes  with  the  tools  or  implements  of  a  mechanic  or 
artisan  "a  reasonable  amount  of  material"  necessary  to  carry 
on    his    trade. 

A.  B.  1044.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  690,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  property  exempt  from  execution. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  6  one  automobile,  the  selling  price  of 
which  when  new  shall  not  have  exceeded  $1250,  together  with 
accessories  for  same,  selling  price  of  which  when  new  shall 
not  have  exceeded  $250,  used  by  a  physician,  surgeon,  constable 
or  minister  of  the  gospel  in  legitimate  practice  of  profession 
or  business. 

A.  B.  1172.  Ryan.  Amending  Subdivision  9  of  Section  690, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  property  exempt  from 
execution,  by  including  "persons  sent  from  this  State  to  work 
in  fish  canneries  located  outside  of  this  State". 

A.  B.  1320.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  690,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  exemptions  from  execution  (introduced 
by   title   only). 

A.  B.  1428.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  690,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  property  exempt  from  execution. 

Adds  a  new  subdivision  (11),  defining  the  term  "common 
necessaries  of  life"  as  "such  food,  clothing,  shelter,  and  pro- 
vision for  the  common  and  ordinary  contingencies  of  life,  such 
as  medical  attendance  in  sickness  and  other  services,  as  are 
necessary  for  the  support  of  life  and  to  make  necessary  pro- 
vision for  the  aforesaid  contingencies  during  the  life  of  the 
judgment  debtor,  his  wife  or  other  person  for  whose  support 
he  Is  legally  liable". 


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S.  B.  664.  Beban.  Amending  Section  700a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating-  to  sales  of  property  under  judgments  and 
powers  of  sale  provided  in  mortgages,  deeds  of  trust  and 
other  instruments  in  writing  and  providing  for  the  redemption 
of  property  from  such  sales  and  declaring  void  any  provision 
waiving  such  right  of  redemption. 

A.  B.  1390.  Manning.  Adding  Section  705%  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  assignments,  transfers  and  mort- 
gages of  interests   in   estates  of  deceased   persons. 

Declares  every  transfer  of  undistributed  interest,  or  any  part 
thereof,  in  estate  of  a  deceased  person,  pending'  and  undis- 
tributed in  probate  court,  to  be  deemed  a  mortgage.  Maker 
of  any  such  instrument  in  pending  probate  proceeding  is  al- 
lowed three  calendar  months  from  entry  of  decree  of  settle- 
ment of  final  account  and  distribution  except  for  legal  ser- 
vices; where  any  interest  has  been  conveyed  or  hypothecated 
for  any  consideration  other  than  legal  services  court  shall 
not  make  any  partial  or  final  distribution  of  such  heir  or  his 
assignee  or  transferee,  except  upon  written  consent  of  such 
heir,  until  three  months  after  entry  of  order  settling  final 
account  and  distribution  to  heirs  who  have  not  conveyed  or 
hypothecated  their  interests.  Assignor  or  transferor  of  his 
interest  is  allowed  until  three  months  after  entry  of  order 
settling  final  account  to  repay  consideration  with  interest. 
If  at  end  of  that  period  consideration  with  interest  has  not 
been  repaid,  court  shall  distribute  interest  of  said  heir  to  his 
assignee,  provided  amount  of  indebtedness  is  fixed  and  deter- 
mined. Should  dispute  arise  between  assignor  and  assignee 
as  to  amount  of  indebtedness  court  may  continue  final  dis- 
tribution until  amount  is  fixed  and  determined  by  some  court 
of   competent  jurisdiction. 

A.  B.  392.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  731,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  and  adding  Section  731a  (new)  thereto,  relat- 
ing to  the  abatement  of  public  nuisances  and  by  whom  actions 
may  be  instituted  for  such  purpose. 

Incorporates  (Sec.  731)  the  provisions  of  Red  Light  Abate- 
ment Act  with  reference  to  bringing  actions  to  abate 
nuisances;  and  in  Section  731a  the  provisions  of  that  Act  with 
regard  to  dismissals. 

A.  B.  106.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Section  731a  (new)  .  to 
the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  abatement  of 
nuisances. 

Provides  that  where  consequences  of  nuisance  about  to  be 
erected  or  commenced  will  be  irreparable  in  damages,  and 
such  consequences  are  not  merely  possible,  but  to  a  reason- 
able degree  certain,  court  of  equity  may  interfere  to  arrest 
nuisance  before  it  is  completed. 

S.    B.    596.      Ballard    (by    request).      Amending    Section ;  738, 


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Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  actions  to  quiet  title, 
wills  in  evidence  and  right  to  jury  trial. 

Provides  that  any  person  having  or  claiming  to  have  any 
estate  or  interest  of  any  kind  or  character  in  real  property, 
whether  legal  or  equitable  or  otherwise,  may  maintain  an 
action  to  quiet  title  thereto  and  to  determine  any  adverse 
estate  or  interest  therein. 

A.   B.   999.     Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.   B.   596.     Ballard. 

S.  B.  644.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  749  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  recording  of  certified  copies 
of  judgments. 

Provides  that  in  actions  affecting  legal  title  to  real  property, 
judgment  shall  have  effect  of  vesting  in  party  in  whose  favor 
rendered  such  title  and  interest  as  therein  specified,  without 
further  act  of  any  person,  upon  recording  certified  copy  of 
judgment   with   County   Recorder. 

A.  B.  119.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  759,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure  ^Political  Code  is  intended),  relating  to  the  ap- 
pointment and  employment  of  a  phonographic  reporter  by 
each  of  the  District  Courts  of  Appeal  and  prescribing  his 
duties    and    compensation. 

Increases    compensation    to    $3000    per    annum. 

A.  B.  879.  Pettis.  Amending  Section  832,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  place  where  civil  actions  in  justices' 
courts  must  be  commenced  and  tried. 

Provides  (Subd.  7)  that  either  the  township  or  city  in  which 
obligation  is  incurred  or  where  business  of  creditor  or  obligee 
is  located  may  be  deemed  township  or  city  in  which  it  is  to  be 
performed,  unless  there  is  special  contract  in  writing  to  con- 
trary. 

S.  B.  222.  Scott  (by  request).  Amending  Section  848,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  service  of  summons  in  the  jus- 
tices'   court. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  2,  "and  in  all  cases  where  an  action  is 
brought  under  provisions  of  Subdivision  7  of  Section  832,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure". 

A.   B.   230.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S.   B.   222.      Scott. 

A.  B.  568.  Satterwhite.  Amending  Section  848,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  service  of  summons. 

Omits   from   Subdivision   2   the  words   "in   writing". 

A.  B.  60.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  850,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  fixing  of  the  time  of  hearing  or 
trial  on   demurrer   or  answer,   and   of   notice    thereof. 

Provides  that  if  a  party  demurs  to  or  answers  any  pleading 
court  must  fix  time  for  hearing  or  trial,  and  party  so  demur- 
ring or  answering  must  take  notice  thereof.  If  adverse  party 
does  not  appear  at  time  fixed  and  court  believes  that  he  has 
no   knowledge   of   time   fixed    for   hearing   court   must   postpone 


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hearing  or  trial  not  to  exceed  10  days  and  cause  notice  to 
be  given  to  adverse  party  or  his  attorney.  Court  may  from 
time    to    time    make   like   postponement    until    notice   be    given. 

A.  B.  369.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  850,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  notices  of  hearing  in  the  Justice  Courts. 

Omits  the  provision  that  parties  shall  have  one  hour  in  which 
to  appear  after  ->the  time  fixed  in  the  notice. 

A.  B.  151.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  853,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  defining  the  complaint  in  Justice's  courts  as  "a 
concise  statement  in  writing,  stating  facts  constituting  the 
plaintiff's   cause   of   action." 

A.  B.  823.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  853a  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  appointment  of  counsel 
in   suits  filed  in  justice's  court. 

Provides  that  if,  upon  filing  suit,  plaintiff  or  defendant  files 
affidavit  alleging  inability,  through  lack  of  funds,  to  prosecute 
or  defend  action,  court  shall  assign  counsel  whose  fee  shall 
be    fixed   by   court   and   paid   out    of   any   judgment   recovered. 

A.  B.  87.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  855,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating    to    answer    of    defendant    in    jusitce    court. 

Adds    "or    cross-complaint". 

A.  B.  85.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  856,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  counter-claim  of  defendant  in  justice's 
court. 

Adds   "or  cross-complaint". 

A.  B.  208.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  859,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  amendment  of  pleadings  and  open- 
ing of  default  judgments. 

Strikes  out  the  words  "by  default"  in  the  sentence  permitting 
the  court  to  relieve  a  party  from  a  judgment  taken  against 
him  by  his  mistake,  inadvertence,  surprise,  or  excusable 
neglect. 

A.  B.  1144.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  861,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  order  of  arrest  and  arrest  of  defendant. 

S.  B.  716.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  868,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  writs  of  attachment. 

A.  B.  35.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  869a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of    Civil    Procedure,    relating    to    the    publication    of    summons. 

Provides  that  Sections  412  and  413,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure, 
are  applicable  to  actions  in  justice's  court,  except  that  pub- 
lication of  summons  in  justice's  court  actions  shall  be  for 
such  length  of  time  as  may  be  deemed  reasonable,  at  least 
once  a  week,  but  not  for  less  than  20  days,  and  no  further 
action  shall  be  taken  until  expiration  of  20  days  from  and 
after    date    of    first    publication    unless    defendant    appears. 

A.  B.  84.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  873,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  when  trial  must  be  com- 
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Adds  provision  "or  unless  the  court,  for  good  cause,  other- 
wipe  direct",  the  trial  must  commence  at  time  specified  in 
notice. 

S.  B.  1195.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  873^  (new)  to  the 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  disqualification  of 
Justices  of  the  Peace. 

Provides  that  where  Justice  of  the  Peace  is  disqualified  case 
shall  be  transferred  to  such  other  Justice  of  the  county  as 
parties  may  agree  upon  either  by  stipulation  in  writing  or 
made  in  open  court  and  entered  in  minutes,  and  in  event  of  no 
agreement  then  to  some  other  Justice  designated  by  the 
Justice  disqualified. 

S.  B.  440.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  890,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  judgment  of  dismissal  entered  without 
prejudice. 

Strikes   out  reference   to   "cross-complainf   in   Subdivision   1. 

A.  B.  391.  Brown,  W.  H.  Amending  Section  893,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  form  of  judgments  and  notice 
thereof  to  be  given  to  litigants. 

Adds  provision  that  notice  of  rendition  must  be  given  to 
parties  personally,  or  by  mail  in  writing  by  justice,  or  to 
attorney.  If  notice  served  by  mail  must  be  placed  in  postoffice 
not  later  than  five  days  after  rendition  of  judgment;  when 
served  personally,  within  five  days  after  rendition  of  judg- 
ment. Time  for  appeal  begins  to  run  in  case  of  personal 
service  from  date  of  service,  and  in  case  of  mail  service  from 
date  of  deposit  in  postoffice.  Entry  of  date  of  mailing  must 
be  made  by  justice  in  his  docket. 

A.  B.  1139.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  900,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,   relating  to  judgments. 

S.  B.  225.  Scott  (by  request).  Adding  Section  905a  (new), 
to  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  enforcement 
or  carrying  into  execution  of  judgments  rendered  by  the  jus- 
tice's court  after  the  lapse  of  five  years  from  the  date  of 
entry,  by  leave  of  court  upon  motion  or  by  judgment,  founded 
upon  supplemental  pleadings.  Does  not  revive  judgments 
barred  by  statute  of  limitations  at  time  of  passage. 

A.   B.   231.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S.   B.   225.     Scott. 

S.  B.  559.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  939,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  within  which  an  appeal  may 
be  taken. 

Provides  that  an  appeal  may  be  taken  from  any  appealable 
judgment  or  order  of  a  Superior  Court  within  60  days  after 
entry  thereof;  no  appeal  shall  be  dismissed  on  ground  that 
it  was  taken  after  rendition  and  before  formal  entry;  if  motion 
for  new  trial  be  made  time  for  appeal  shall  not  expire  until 
30  days  after  entry  of  order  determining  such   motion. 

A.  B.  811.     McKnifcht.     Identical  with  S.  B.  559.     Benedict. 


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S.  B.  706.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  939,  940  and  948, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  for  and  manner 
of  taking  of  appeals,  and  the  justification  of  sureties  on  under- 
taking on  appeal,  and  repealing  Sections  941a,  941b  and  941c, 
relating  to  an  alternative  method  of  appeal. 

Provides  (Sec.  939)  that  an  appeal  must  be  taken  within 
60  days  after  notice  of  entry  of  judgment  has  been  served  on 
attorneys  of  record,  provided  if  no  notice  be  given  within  6 
months  thereafter;  and  adds  subdivision  4,  from  an  order, 
decree  or  judgment  in  probate  proceedings  mentioned  in  Title 
XI  of  Part  III,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  at  any  time  after  such 
order,  decree  or  judgment  is  made,  but  not  later  than  60  days 
after  entry;  any  person  (Sec.  940)  having  right  of  appeal  may 
do  so  by  riling  notice  that  he  appeals  with  clerk  of  court  in 
which  judgment,  order  or  decree  is  rendered;  notice  need  not 
be  served,  but  appeal  is  ineffectual  unless  within  5  days  after 
filing  of  notice  of  appeal,  undertaking  be  filed  or  deposit  of 
money  be  made  with  clerk,  or  undertaking  waived  by  adverse 
party;  in  event  of  death  of  any  person  having  right  of  appeal 
attorney  of  record  representing  him  in  court  when  judgment 
was  rendered  may  appeal  at  any  time  prior  to  appointment 
of  executor  or  administrator  of  his  estate;  requiring  (Sec.  948) 
notice  of  filing  undertaking  to  be  served  on  attorneys  of  rec- 
ord of  adverse  party,  and  unless  sureties  justify  within  10 
days,  execution  is  no  longer  stayed  and  appeal  must  be  re- 
garded as  if  no  such  undertaking  had  been  given. 

S.  B.  487.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  941b,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  a  new  or  alternative  method  by  which 
appeals  may  be  taken  from  judgments,  orders  or  decrees  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  the  State  of  California  to  the  Supreme 
Court    or   District    Courts    of   Appeal    thereof. 

S.  B.  560.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  950,  951  and  953, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  and  to  repeal  Section  952  of  said  code, 
all  relating  to  appeals. 

Strikes  out  (Sec.  950)  last  paragraph,  with  reference  to 
statements  on  motion  for  new  trial;  strikes  out  (Sec.  951) 
"except  an  order  granting  or  refusing  a  new  trial";  and 
(Sec.  953)  changes  the  section  to  read  "provided  for  in  Sec- 
tions 950  and  951"  instead  of  "provided  for  in  the  last  three 
sections"    as    at    present. 

A.   B.   810.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.   B.   560.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  486.  Kehoe.  Amending  Sections  953a  and  953b,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  a  new  and  alternative  method 
for  the  preparation  of  records  to  be  used  on  appeal  from 
judgments,  orders  or  decree  from  the  Superior  Court  to  the 
Supreme   Court   or  District   Courts   of  Appeal. 

Adds  to  the  first  paragraph  of  the  present  section  a  pro- 
vision  that   if  a   motion   for  new   trial   be   pending,    the   notice 


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must  be  filed  within  10  days  after  notice  of  decision  denying 
said  motion  or  of  other  termination  thereof;  and  requires 
(par.  2)  the  shorthand  reporter  to  prepare  an  original  and 
two  carbon  copies  of  the  record,  the  original  to  be  filed  with 
the  clerk,  and  one  of  the  copies  furnished  to  appellant  and 
the  other  to  respondent,  such  copies  to  be  furnished  without 
extra  charge.  Upon  the  record  being  filed  the  clerk  shall 
notify  the  attorneys  thereof,  and  that  within  five  days  after 
receipt  of  said  notice  the  record  will  be  presented  to  the 
judge   for  approval. 

S.  B.  561.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  956,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  what  may  be  reviewed  on  appeal  from 
judgment. 

Adds  the  provision:  "All  matters  heretofore  reviewable  on 
appeal  from  an  order  denying  a  motion  for  new  trial  shall 
be   reviewable    on    appeal    from    the   judgment." 

A.  B.   813.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.   B.   561.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  86.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  959,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating   to   appeals   to   Superior   Courts. 

Adds  the  provision:  "That  when  an  appeal  from  a  justice 
court  to  the  Superior  Court  has  been  dismissed  by  the  Su- 
perior Court,  the  justice  court  from  which  the  appeal  was 
made  shall  have  jurisdiction  to  enforce  the  judgment  or  order 
appealed    from. 

S.  B.  563.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  963,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  cases  in  which  an  appeal  may  be  taken, 
so  as  to  include  among  appealable  matters  orders  dissolving 
an  injunction,  and  interlocutory  decrees  of  divorce,  and  doing 
away   with   appeals   from   an   order   refusing   a   new   trial. 

A.   B.   814.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.   B.   563.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  1196.  Scott,  F.  C.  (by  request).  Amending  Section 
976  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  appeals  to 
Superior  Courts   on  questions  of  fact  or  of  law   and  fact. 

A.  B.  1087.  Ellis.  Amending  Section  976,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  appeal  on  questions  of  fact,  or  law 
and    fact. 

Provides  that  a  statement  must  be  prepared  substantially 
as  in  appeals  from  the  Superior  Court,  which  shall  contain  so 
much  of  the  evidence  as  may  be  necessary  for  purposes  of 
appeal. 

S.  B.  998.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.  B.   1087.     Ellis. 

A.  B.  714.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  978a,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  filing  of  undertakings  on  ap- 
peal, and  exception  to  and  justification  of  sureties. 

Failure  to  give  notice  upon  filing  of  undertaking  renders 
appeal   ineffectual   for  any  purpose. 

A.  B.  167.  Lyon.  Adding  Section  981  (new)  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,   providing  for  the  payment  by  parties  appeal- 


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ing  from  judgments  in  justices'  courts  of  filing  fees  and  cal- 
endar fees  in  the   Superior  Court. 

Provides  that  no  appeal  from  judgment  of  police  or  justices' 
courts  shall  be  effectual  unless  appellant  shall  at  time  of  filing 
notice  of  appeal  pay  in  addition  to  fee  payable  to  justice  of 
the  peace  on  appeal,  fees  provided  by  law  to  be  paid  county 
clerk  for  filing  appeal  and  placing  action  on  calendar  in 
Superior  Court.  Justice  or  judge  transmitting  papers  on  appeal 
shall  transmit  to  county  clerk  fees  so  deposited.  No  notice 
of  appeal  shall  be  filed  unless  fees  provided  are  paid. 

S.  B.  229.  Anderson.  Adding  Section  1020  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  service  of  summons  in  ac- 
tions  for   divorce   or  annulment   of   marriage. 

S.  B.  1030.  Carr.  Adding  Section  1021a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  costs  in  civil  actions  and  pro- 
ceedings. 

Provides  that  where  court  determines  action  or  proceeding 
was  instituted  or  prosecuted  frivolously  or  without  reasonable 
cause  or  belief  in  merits  thereof,  or  that  a  defense  was  inter- 
posed frivolously,  etc.,  court  may  allow  prevailing  party  such 
sum  taxed  as  costs  as  is  a  reasonable  attorney's  fee  for  prose- 
cuting or  defending  such  action,  any  sum  so  allowed  to  be 
in  addition  to  costs  and  disbursements  now  provided  for. 
Order  may  be  made  by  court  on  own  motion  or  on  motion 
of  counsel  before  entry  of  costs  in  judgment;  and  order  may 
be  set  aside  or  amount  allowed  increased  or  decreased  on 
motion   to   tax   costs. 

A.  B.  63.  Manning.  Adding  Section  1048%  to  the  Code  of 
Civil    Procedure,    relating    to    the    consolidation    of    actions. 

Provides  that  causes  of  like  nature  relative  to  same  question 
may    be    consolidated   when    it    appears    reasonable    to    do    so. 

S.  B.  491.  Jones.  Amending  Section  1054,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  extension  of  time  in  which  an 
act  is  to  be  done. 

Omits  "preparation  of  statements,"  limits  extensions  of 
time  by  the  court  to  30  days  except  upon  consent  of  the 
adverse  party;  and  strikes  out  the  proviso  added  by  extra 
session  of  1906  [Stats.  1906,  9]  (S.  B.  612.  Kehoe.  Pending 
Legislation   1913,   p.    104). 

A.   B.   681.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.   B.   491.     Jones. 

S.  B.  981.  Rush.  Adding  Section  1060  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procdure,  providing  for  the  deposit  and  payment  of 
jury   fees. 

Provides  that  jury  fees  shall  be  deposited  in  court  by  party 
demanding  a  jury,  and  compensation  of  jurors  to  be  paid 
therefrom;  fees  so  paid  may  be  recovered  as  costs  by  party 
depositing,   if  he  recovers  judgment  for  costs. 

A.   B.    1323.     Satterwhite.     Adding  Section   1128   (new)    to  the 


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Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  salary  of  officers  in  case 
of  delay   in   issuance   of   commission. 

If  delay  is  through  no  fault  of  officer- elect,  he  shall  be  en- 
titled to  salary  from  date  upon  which  he  should  have  been 
seated. 

S.  B.  1161.  Thompson.  Repealing  Section  1154,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  plaintiff  advancing  funds  for 
support  of  prisoner. 

A.  B.  761.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  1167,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  service  of  summons  in  unlawful  detainer. 

Provides  that  if  it  appears  to  court  that  defendant  is  con- 
cealing himself  to  avoid  service  and  cannot  be  found  at  his 
place  of  residence  or  business,  or  if  such  cannot  be  ascertained, 
summons  may  be  served  by  affixing  a  copy  in  a  conspicuous 
place  on  the  premises  in  suit  and  by  delivering  a  copy  to  a 
person  there  residing  and  by  sending  a  copy  through  mail  to 
defendant. 

S.  B.  749.  Maddux  (by  request).  Identical  with  A.  B.  761. 
Schmitt. 

S.  B.  748.  Benson.  Adding  Section  1193a  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  procedure  of  liens  of  mechanics 
and  others  upon  real  property. 

An  action  to  foreclose  a  lien  under  this  chapter  shall  be  com- 
menced by  filing  in  proper  court  certified  copy  of  claim  of  lien 
theretofore  filed  in  Recorder's  office;  summons  shall  be  issued 
and  served  as  in  other  actions;  within  time  specified  in  sum- 
mons any  person  interested  may  contest  same,  setting  forth 
objections  in  writing  verified  as  pleadings  in  other  actions;  no 
other  pleadings  permitted,  and  at  expiration  of  time  allowed 
for  filing  objections  court  shall  set  case  for  trial  within  10 
days;  should  judge  not  be  able  to  hear  case  on  day  set,  he 
must  call  in  another  judge  to  hold  extra  session  of  court  and 
try  case  or  refer  it  to  commissioner,  and  within  10  days  after 
filing  of  report  of  commissioner,   court  shall  render  judgment. 

A.  B.  242.  Scott,  P.  C.  Adding  Section  1195a  (new)  to  the 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  for  the  allowance  of  attor- 
neys' fees  in  any  action  to  establish  liens  in  the  Superior  or 
Appellate  courts,  if,  in  the  opinion  of  the  court,  the  cause  of 
action    or    defense    is    frivolous    or    vexatious. 

S.  B.  69.  Scott.  Adding  Section  1195a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  permitting  the  court,  in  any  action  to 
establish  a  lien,  to  allow  the  prevailing  party  a  reasonable 
attorney's  fee,  in  the  Superior  or  Appellate  Courts,  if  in  his 
opinion  the  cause  of  action  or  defense  is  frivolous  or  vexa- 
tious. 

A.  B.  1146.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  1206,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  payment  of  wage  claims  from  prop- 
erty held  under  execution   or  attachment. 


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Provides  that  a  wage  claimant  must,  among  other  things, 
file  an  affidavit  showing  the  service  of  a  copy  of  the  statement 
of  claim  on  each  of  the  parties  to  the  action  in  which  execu- 
tion or  attachment  issues,  and  such  claim,  not  exceeding  $100, 
if  not  disputed,  must  be  paid  by  the  officer  within  15  days 
from  date  of  filing. 

S.  B.  803.  Luce.  Adding  Section  1218a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  for  a  jury  trial  in  certain  cases 
of  contempt. 

A.  B.  928.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Section  1218a  (new)  to 
the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  for  a  jury  trial  in  certain 
cases  of  contempt  out  of  the  presence  of  the  court. 

S.  B.  43.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  1238,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  public  uses  on  behalf  of  which  the 
right  of  eminent  domain  may  be  exercised.  Adds  Subdivision 
18  (new)  including  as  property  subject  to  condemnation  stand- 
ing trees  and  ground  necessary  for  their  support  and  mainte- 
nance along  any  State  highway  within  300  feet  of  the  center 
thereof,  and  ground  for  the  culture  and  growth  of  such  trees. 

A.    B.    31.      Kerr.      Identical   with   S.    B.    43.      Birdsall. 

A.  B.  517.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  1240,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  private  property  which  may  be  taken 
for  public  use. 

Provides  for  the  taking  (Subd.  5,  new)  of  property  appro- 
priated to  public  use  by  any  county,  city  and  county,  incor- 
porated city  or  town,  irrigation  or  municipal  water  district,  by 
another  county,  city  and  county,  incorporated  city  or  town, 
irrigation  or  municipal  water  district,  for  another  public  use 
and  purpose  consistent  with  the  use  to  which  it  is  then  being 
put,  provided  that  the  right  to  such  limited  use  in  common 
shall  include  the  right  to  enlarge,  change  or  improve  the 
property  taken,  so  long  as  the  original  use  is  not  interfered 
with. 

S.  B.  653.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1240,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  private  property  which  may  be  taken 
under  Title  VII  of  Part  III  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure. 

Adds  a  new  subdivision  (8)  authorizing  proceedings  to  con- 
demn lands  belonging  to  the  State,  to  be  maintained  as  other 
condemnation  proceedings  and  requiring  summons  and  com- 
plaint to  be  served  on  Governor,  Attorney-General  and  Sur- 
veyor-General. 

A.  B.  1021.  Salisbury  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1246, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure  of  California,  relating  to  eminent 
domain. 

S.  B.  413.  Slater.  Amending  Section  1247,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  jurisdiction  of  a  court  to  regulate 
the  mode  of  making  crossings. 


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Adds  Subdivision  4  "To  regulate  and  determine  the  place 
and  manner  of  making  farm  or  private  crossings." 

S.  B.  719.  Slater.  Amending  Section  1248,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  what  must  be  ascertained  or  assessed 
by  the  court,  jury  or  referee  at  the  trial  of  proceedings  under 
Title  VII,   Part  III,   of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure. 

S.  B.  414.  Slater.  Amending  Section  1251,  Code  of  Civil  Pro- 
cedure, relating  to  when  a  plaintiff  in  eminent  domain  pro- 
ceedings must  pay  the  sum  of  money  assessed. 

Includes   "farm  or  private  crossings." 

S.  B.  1125.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  1269,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  escheated  property  and  the  procedure  in 
relation  thereto. 

Provides  that  property  of  every  person  dying  and  leaving  no 
kindred  resident  of  this  State  or  citizen  of  the  United  States, 
not  disposed  of  by  will,  shall  escheat  to  the  State  for  support 
of  schools;  if  proceedings  for  settlement  of  estate  are  instituted 
and  no  relative  appears  within  one  year,  court  shall,  after 
payment  of  debts  and  expenses  of  administration,  distribute 
money  and  property  remaining  to  State.  Where  proceedings 
not  commenced  within  six  months  from  death  of  such  decedent, 
Attorney-General  may  direct  Public  Administrator  to  commence 
same;  at  any  time  after  one  year  Attorney-General  shall  com- 
mence action  in  Superior  Court  of  Sacramento  county  as  at 
present  provided. 

A.   B.   1327.     Widenmann.     Identical  with  S.   B.   1125.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  1124.  Kehoe.  Adding  Section  1269a  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  escheated  property  and  the  pro- 
cedure in  relation  thereto. 

Provides  that  whenever  the  Attorney-General  is  informed 
that  any  estate  or  property  involved  in  any  action  or  special 
proceeding  has  or  is  about  to  escheat  to  the  State,  he  may 
bring  an  action  on  behalf  of  the  State  to  determine  its  rights 
thereto  or  may  intervene  in  any  action  affecting  it. 

A.   B.   1329.     Widenmann.     Identical  with   S.   B.   1124.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  1123.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  1272,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  escheated  property  and  the  procedure 
in  relation  thereto. 

Reduces  the  time  within  which  petition  may  be  filed  from 
twenty   to   two   years. 

A.   B.   1328.     Widenmann.     Identical  with   S.   B.   1123.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  671.  Hans.  Adding  Section  1273  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  escheated  property. 

Provides  for  escheat  of  deposits  to  State  after  20  years'  in- 
activity. Requires  Attorney-General,  when  notified,  to  com- 
mence actions  in  Superior  Court,  Sacramento,  joining  the  banks 
and  depositors  as  parties.  Summons  shall  be  personally  served 
upon  president,  cashier  or  managing  officer  of  each  bank,  and 


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by  publication  for  four  weeks  in  newspaper  of  general  cir- 
culation. Upon  trial  court  must  hear  all  parties  and  if  de- 
termines moneys  deposited  are  unclaimed,  shall  give  judgment 
in  favor  of  State,  and  banks  shall  forthwith  deliver  money 
to  State  Treasurer,  to  be  invested,  accounted  for  and  paid 
out  as  provided  in  case  of  other  escheated  property. 

S.  B.  672.  Hans.  Amending  Section  1278,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  hearing  application  for  change  of  name, 
and  remonstrance,  and  requiring  production  of  the  certificate 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Banks,  by  banking  corporations,  that 
name  desired  does  not  resemble  so  closely  as  to  be  likely  to 
cause  confusion,  the  name  of  any  other  bank  previously  formed 
under  the  laws  of  this  State. 

A.  B.  234.  Pettis.  Adding  Section  1296  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  jurisdiction  of  court  over  pro- 
ceedings to  convey,  sell,  lease,  and  mortgage  property  of  an 
estate  in  process  of  administration. 

Provides  that  when  court  obtains  jurisdiction  over  estate 
and  issues  letters  thereon,  it  thereafter  has  full  jurisdiction 
for  all  purposes  of  administration;  errors  or  irregularities  in 
petitions  or  proceedings  for  conveyances,  sales,  leases,  or  mort- 
gages may  give  ground  for  attack  on  appeal,  or  on  motion  to 
set  aside;  but  each  order  of  court  directing  or  confirming  such 
conveyances,  sale,  lease  or  mortgage  shall  be  deemed  valid 
against  collateral  attack. 

S.  B.  232.  Irwin.  Adding  Section  1296  to  the  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  jurisdiction  of  courts  over  proceedings 
to  convey,  sell,  lease  and  mortgage  property  of  an  estate  in 
process   of   administration. 

A.  B.  790.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  1304,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  notice  of  time  appointed  for 
probate  of  will  to  be  sent  to  heirs,  legatees  and  named 
executors'. 

S.  B'.  130.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1365,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  order  of  persons  entitled  to  admin- 
ister upon  estates. 

Adds  in  each  of  the  first  seven  instances  "or  some  competent 
person  whom  they  or  either  of  them  may  request  to  have 
appointed." 

A.  B.  123.  Bruck.  Amending  section  1377,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  granting  of  letters  of  administra- 
tion so  as  to  provide  for  the  fixing  of  the  value  of  the  prop- 
erty of  the  estate  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  time 
within  which  the  notice  to  creditors  shall  fix  a  time,  within 
which   to   present   claims   against  the   estate. 

S.  B.  1011.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1444,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  appraisers  of  estates  of  deceased  persons. 

Provides    that    one    of    the    appraisers    must    be    one    of    the 


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inheritance  tax  appraisers,  and  that  where  but  two  ap- 
praisers act,  one  must  be  an  inheritance  tax  appraiser,  and 
permitting  the  court  to  appoint  an  inheritance  tax  appraiser 
as   sole  appraiser. 

A.  B.  509.  Satterwhite.  Amending  Section  1447,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  effect  of  naming  a  debtor 
executor. 

Adds  "unless  he  proves  that  he  had  not,  either  at  that  time 
or  at  any  time  thereafter,  any  means  wherewith  to  pay 
such  debt  or  demand,  or  such  part  thereof  as  may  remain  un- 
paid, and  that  such  inability  did  not  arise  from  any  fraud 
committed  by  him". 

S.  B.  7.  Crowley.  Amending  Section  1454,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  collection  by  surviving  heirs  of 
money  in  banks. 

Increases  the  amount  that  may  be  collected  by  surviving 
heirs   to   $1000.00. 

A.    B.    82.      Collins.      Identical   with    S.    B.    7.      Crowley. 

S.  B.  445.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  1465a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relative  to  notices  of  petitions  to  set  aside  exempt 
property  for  use   of  family. 

Requires  notice  to  be  served  upon  attorney  of  any  person 
who  has  appeared  or  given  notice  of  appearance  (by  attorney) 
in  the  estate  as  heir,  legatee,  devisee,  next  of  kin,  or  creditor, 
or  as   otherwise   interested. 

S.  B.  1067.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1489,  Political 
Code,   relating  to  State  normal  schools. 

S.  B.  278.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  1490,  1493,  1494, 
1495,  1496,  1497,  1498,  1499,  1500,  1502,  1503,  1505,  1507,  1510, 
1512,  1513  and  1514,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  claims 
against   estates   of  deceased   persons. 

Requires  (Sec.  1490)  all  claims  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
clerk  of  the  court  from  which  letters  were  issued;  also  (Sec. 
1493)  requires  such  claims  to  state  the  address  of  the  claim- 
ant or  his  attorney,  but  provides  that  failure  to  state  address 
of  claimant  or  his  attorney  shall  not  invalidate  any  claim. 
The  clerk  is  required  to  enter  in  the  register  a  brief  descrip- 
tion of  every  claim,  showing  name  of  claimant,  amount  and 
character  of  claim,  rate  of  interest,  if  any,  and  date  of  filing. 
Balance  of  amendments  are  merely  verbal  changes  so  as  to 
provide  for  filing  instead  of  presentation  of  claims. 

A.  B.  1124.     Rutherford.    Identical  with   S.   B.   278.     Thompson. 

S.  B.  507.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  1491,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  time  to  be  given  by  notice  to 
creditors. 

Makes  the  time   four  months  in  all  estates. 

S.  B.  1163.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1491,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relative  to  time  of  notice  to  creditors  of  an  estate. 


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Provides  that  after  September  1,  1915,  time  expressed  in 
notice  must  be  six  months  when  estate  exceeds  $10,000  and 
four  months  when   it   does  not. 

A.  B.  1355.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  1491a,  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  filing  statement  as  to  publica- 
tion of  notice  to  creditors. 

Provides  that  in  case  statement  be  not  filed  in  time  notice 
shall  be  ineffective  and  a  new  notice  to  creditors  may  be  pub- 
lished and  a  new  statement  filed   within  thirty  days. 

S.   B.   1141.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1355.     Brown. 

A.  B.  277.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  1494,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  claims  against  the  estates  of  dece- 
dents,   and    interest    thereon. 

The  words  "if  the  estate  be  insolvent"  are  omitted  from  the 
beginning  of   the   last   sentence. 

A.  B.  1463.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  1531,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  orders  to  show  cause  on  sale  of  real 
estate. 

Provides  that  where  estate  does  not  exceed  $500,  publication 
may  be  dispensed  with  and  posting  ordered. 

A.  B.  1460.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1539,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  service  of  orders  to  show  cause. 

Adds  a  provision  that  when  it  appears  from  the  inventory 
and  appraisement  that  the  value  of  the  whole  estate  to  be 
sold  does  not  exceed  $500,  the  court  may  in  lieu  of  publica- 
tion order  that  notice  be  given  by  posting  in  at  least  three 
public   places   in   the   county. 

A.  B.  1461.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1547,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  notices  of  £<ale  at  public  auction. 

Provides  that  where  estate  does  not  exceed  $500  court  may 
dispense  with  publication  and  order  notices   to  be  posted. 

A.  B.  1462.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1549,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating  to  notices  of   sale  at  public  sale. 

Provides  that  where  estate  does  not  exceed  $500  court  may 
dispense   with   publication  and   order   notices   posted. 

S.  B.  78.  King.  Amending  Section  1618,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  compensation  of  executors  and 
administrators.  Provides  that  commissions  shall  be  allowed 
"in  such  sums  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  court,  but  not  ex- 
ceeding" the  rates  fixed  by  the  statute;  with  a  further  pro- 
vision that  where  the  property  of  the  estate  is  distributed 
in  kind  and  involves  no  labor  beyond  custody  and  distribu- 
tion, commissions  shall  be  computed  on  all  the  estate  above 
$20,000  at  one-half  the  rates  fixed  in  the  section,  subject 
to  the  courts  fixing  such  commission  not  exceeding  said 
rates. 

A.  B.  607.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  1643,  Code  of 
Civil    Procedure,    prescribing   the    order    in    which    debts    must 


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be  paid,  and  fixing  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  on  demands 
against  estates  of  decedents. 

A.  B.  1381.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  1658,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,   relating   to  partial  distribution. 

Extends  the  provisions  of  the   section   to   "annuitants". 

S.  B.  1010.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1669,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  payment  of  taxes  and  decree  of  dis- 
tribution  of   estates. 

Adds  provision  that  no  decree  of  distribution  shall  be  valid 
unless  there  shall  first  have  been  filed  in  said  proceeding  a 
certificate  or  report  of  an  inheritance  tax  appraiser  showing 
the  amount  of  inheritance  tax  due  from  said  estate. 

A.  B.  105.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Section  1690  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  for  the  granting  of  letters  of 
administration  upon  the  estates  of  persons  presumed  to  be 
dead,  by  reason  of  absence  from  the  State  for  seven  years; 
and  for  the  administration  of  the  estates  of  such  absent  per- 
sons. 

Provides  that  seven  years'  absence  shall  be  taken  as  pre- 
sumption of  death,  and  petition  for  letters  of  administration, 
stating  facts,  may  be  filed  in  Superior  Court  where  property 
is  situated  by  any  person  entitled  to  administer  in  case  of 
death;  court  shall  prescribe  notice,  to  be  published  in  news- 
paper in  county  where  property  is  situated,  once  a  week  for 
eight  weeks.  If  upon  hearing  absentee  fails  to  appear  and 
court  is  satisfied  from  evidence  that  presumption  of  death  is 
sustained,  decree  for  letters  shall  issue  and  estate  shall  be 
administered  according  to  laws  governing  estates  of  dece- 
dents, until  revoked  and  all  acts  done  thereunder  shall  be  as 
valid  as  if  absentee  were  really  dead.  Provided  that  if  at  any 
time  during  administration  evidence  that  absentee  is  still 
living  is  presented,  court  shall  suspend  further  proceedings 
until  satisfied  that  such  evidence  is  unfounded,  or  if  satis- 
fied that  absentee  is  still  living,  shall  suspend  all  further 
proceedings    in    administration    of    the    estate. 

S.   B.   913.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.   B.   105.     Brown. 

S.  B.  1065.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1696,  Political 
Code,   relating   to   teachers. 

A.  B.  218.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1723,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  disposition  of  life  estates  or  home- 
steads or  community  property  on  owner's  death  in  certain 
cases. 

Changes  the  clause  as  to  a  married  woman  to  read  "who  at 
the  time  of  her  death  held  the  record  title  to  real  property, 
which   was   community   property." 

S.  B.  1009.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1723,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  disposition  of  life  estates  or  homesteads, 
on   owner's    death,    in   certain   cases. 


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Requires  a  copy  of  the  notice  to  be  served  on  the  State 
Controller  by  mail  at  least  five  days  before  the  time  set  for 
the    hearing. 

S.  B.  107.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1726a,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  the  payment  of  funeral  expenses  of 
deceased   persons   by   Public   Administrator. 

The  amount  of  the  estate  is  increased  to  $150,  and  the  Public 
Administrator  is  permitted  to  expend  not  to  exceed  $100  for 
burial  expense,  the  balance  of  the  estate  to  be  applied  on  ex- 
penses   of   last   illness. 

A.  B.  375.     Chamberlin.     Identical  with  S.  B.  107.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  1066.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1858,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   the  apportionment   of  school   money. 

S.  B.  13.  Jones.  Adding  Section  1871  (new)  to  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  experts,  their  appointment  by  the 
court,  or  a  judge  thereof,  and  providing  for  their  compensa- 
tion and  manner  of  examination  as  witnesses.  Providing  that 
in  all  proceedings,  civil  and  criminal,  where  expert  testimony 
is  necessary,  the  judge  may  appoint  experts  to  investigate 
and  testify;  the  court  to  fix  the  compensation,  which,  in 
criminal  cases,  shall  be  a  charge  upon  the  county,  and  in 
civil  cases  shall  be  taxed  as  costs;  that  the  experts  so  called 
may  be  examined  and  cross-examined  by  the  several  parties; 
and  that  the  parties  may  call  other  experts  if  they  so  desire, 
the  court  to  have  power  to  limit  the  number  of  experts  to 
be  called  by  any  party. 

A.  B.  763.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  1871  (new)  to  the 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  experts,  their  appointment 
by  the  court,  or  a  judge  thereof,  and  providing  for  their  com- 
pensation  and   manner   of   examination   as   witnesses. 

Similar   to  S.   B.   13.     Jones. 

S.  B.  199.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  1881,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating   to    confidential    communications. 

Adds  provision  that  the  bringing  of  an  action  for  damages 
for  personal  injuries,  or  for  the  death  of  a  person,  by  his 
executor,  etc.,  shall  be  deemed  a  consent  by  the  plaintiff  that 
any  physician  who  has  prescribed  for  or  treated  such  person 
and  whose  testimony   is  material,   shall  testify. 

A.  B.   196.     Bartlett.     Identical  with  A.   B.   199.     Ballard. 

S.  B.  1201.  Thompson  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1989, 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  the  attendance  of  a  wit- 
ness before  a  court,  judge,  justice  or  other  officer,  out  of  the 
county  in  which  the  witness  resides. 

Requires  witness  to  attend  out  of  county  if  distance  is  less 
than  50  miles;  present  limit  is  30  miles. 

A.  B.   1468.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1201.     Thompson. 

A.  B.  609.  Manning.  Amending  Section  2021,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,    relating   to    the    taking   of   depositions. 


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S.  B.  613.  Carr.  Adding  Article  VII  to  Chapter  III  of  Title 
V,  Part  IV,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  relating  to  interrogatories 
to  parties  to  actions  and  special  proceedings,  and  admitting 
execution  and   genuineness   of   documents,   letters   or   writings. 

Provides  (Section  2055)  that  in  all  civil  actions  and  special 
proceedings  either  party  to  an  action  may  serve  upon  adverse 
party  or  his  attorney,  and  file,  written  interrogatories  for  the 
discovery  of  facts,  documents  or  exhibits  material  to  the 
support   or   defense   of  any   issue   raised   by   the   pleadings. 

Interrogatories  (Sec.  2056)  must  be  answered  within  10  days 
and  answers  filed  within  5  days  thereafter.  Court  may  extend 
time   for   cause. 

Answers  (Sec.  2057)  to  same  must  be  on  oath,  and  direct 
and  specific,  and  true  copies  of  documents  and  exhibits  must 
be  attached  thereto,  cost  of  making  to  be  borne  by  party 
demanding  them.  Corporations  (Sec.  2058)  must  answer  in- 
terrogatories unless  they  can  show  that  no  stockholder,  officer, 
or  employee  can  give  the  desired  information.  By  so  filing 
interrogatories  (Sec  2059),  a  party  is  not  precluded  from 
examining  adverse  party  as  witness  at  trial,  nor  from  taking 
his  deposition,  nor  shall  he  be  concluded  by  the  answers,  and 
he  may  introduce  in  evidence  such  interrogatories  and  answers 
as  may  be  pertinent.  This  article  (Sec.  2060)  shall  apply  to 
all  civil  actions  and  special  proceedings.  If  a  party  refuse 
to  answer  (Sec.  2060a)  it  shall  be  conclusively  presumed  that 
answer  would  be  adverse  to  party  so  refusing;  he  may  be 
compelled  to  answer  or  to  make  his  answers  more  definite, 
specific  or  certain,  and  may  be  punished  for  contempt  of  court, 
but  no  person  may  be  compelled  to  answer  any  interrogatory 
where  such  answer  might  tend  to  subject  him  to  criminal 
prosecution;  refusal  to  answer  on  this  ground  must  be  spe- 
cifically stated.  Any  person  (Sec.  2060b)  may  not  less  than 
10  days  before  trial  demand  in  writing  admission  in  writing  of 
execution  or  genuineness  of  any  documents,  letters  or  writings 
named,  copies  of  which  shall  be  attached,  and  shall  name 
some  disinterested  bank,  trust  or  bonding  corporation  at 
whose  office  papers  mentioned  will  be  deposited  for  five  days 
from  date  of  service  for  his  inspection;  if  such  admission  not 
made  within  5  days,  cost  of  proving  documents,  letters  or 
writings  shall  be  taxed  as  costs  against  party  refusing  or 
neglecting  to  make  admission,  unless  at  trial  court  finds  such 
refusal  or  neglect  was  for  justifiable  reasons. 

A.   B.  1093.     McKnight.     Identical  with   S.   B.   613.     Carr. 

A.  B.  674.  Chenoweth.  Amending  Section  2093,  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure,  prescribing  the  officers  who  may  administer 
oaths  or  affirmations. 

Adds  "every  city  clerk  and  the  secretary  of  the  governing 
body  of  any  municipal  government." 


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S.  B.  663.  Beban.  Adding  Section  2953  (new)  to  the  Code 
of  Civil  Procedure,  providing  for  the  redemption  of  real  estate 
when  the  same  is  conveyed  to  secure  the  payment  of  money 
or  the  performance  of  an  obligation  and  providing  for  the 
notice  to  be  given  for  the  sale  of  real  estate  under  such  con- 
veyance and  providing  that  contracts  waiving  such  right  of 
redemption  or  dispensing  with   such   notice  shall  be  void. 

S.  B.  712.  Stuckenbruck.  Adding  new  article  to  Chapter 
IV  under  Title  XI,  Part  II,  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  to  be 
numbered   "Article   IV",   relating  to   garnishment. 

S.  B:  713.  Stuckenbruck.  Adding  new  chapter  under  Title 
VII,  Part  II,  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  to  be  numbered 
"Chapter  VII",   relating  to  garnishment. 


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PENAL   CODE. 

S.  B.  1171.  Butler.  Amending  Section  54,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  furnishing  money  for  elections  except  for  specific  pur- 
poses. 

Adds  to  Subdivision  3  provision  that  the  giving  or  acceptance 
of  any  employment  for  conveyance  of  voters  who  are  sick  or 
infirm  must  be  by  written  agreement,  setting  forth  names 
and  residences  of  employer  and  employee  thereunder  and 
names  and  residences  of  voters  who  are  sick  or  infirm  who 
are  to  be  conveyed  thereunder. 

S.  B.  481.  Duncan.  Repealing  Section  55a,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  soliciting,  demanding  or  pledging  votes  for  or 
against   any   particular   bill   or   measure. 

S.  B.  727.  Chandler.  Adding  Section  64b  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  prohibiting  misrepresentation  or  fraud  in  relation  to 
certain  initiative,  referendum  or  recall  petitions,  and  prescrib- 
ing a   penalty   therefor. 

A.  B.  499.  Encell.  Amending  Section  67,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  giving  or  offering  bribes. 

Extends  provisions  of  section  to  include  "any  officer  or  em- 
ployee  of   this   State". 

A.  B.  274.  Browne.  Amending  Section  68,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  definition  and  punishment  of  the  crime  of  seduc- 
tion. 

Omits  fine  and  fixes  punishment  at  not  less  than  five  nor 
more   than   fifteen   years. 

A.  B.  495.  Encell.  Amending  Section  68,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to   asking   or  receiving   bribes. 

Extends  the  provisions  of  the  section  to  every  officer  or  em- 
ployee or  person  employed  by  the  State,  and  includes  "any 
matter  .  .  .  associated  or  connected  with  his  employment 
by   the   State". 

S.  B.  122.  Scott.  Amending  Section  95.  Penal  Code,  relating 
to  improper  attempts  to  influence  judges,  justices,  jurors, 
referees,   etc. 

Includes  justices  and  justices  of  the  peace,  and  declares 
such  act  a  felony  punishable  by  imprisonment  in  the  state 
prison    not    less    than   one   year   or   more   than    20   years. 

A.   B.   182.     McDonald,  J.   J.     Identical  with  S.   B.  122.     Scott. 

S.  B.  25.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  54c  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code  prohibiting  contributions  by  corporations  for  political  pur- 
poses, and  the  soliciting  or  receiving  thereof,  and  makes  vio- 
lation a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  not  to  exceed  $10,000; 
corporation  officers  consenting  to  violation  of  act  and  persons 
soliciting  such  contributions  are  guilty  of  misdemeanor,  pun- 
ishable by  fine  of  not  more  than  $5000  or  imprisonment  in 
county  jail  not  more   than  one  year  or  both. 


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A.  B.  16.  Pettis.  Adding  Section  54c  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  forbidding  the  circulation  of  initiative,  referendum,  re- 
call and  like  petitions,  for  hire,  except  under  prescribed  con- 
ditions. 

Prohibits  giving  or  receiving  money  or  compensation  for 
circulating  or  procuring  signatures  to  petitions  requring  an 
election,  violation  punishable  by  imprisonment  in  state  prison 
or  county  jail  not  more  than  three  months  nor  more  than 
three  years;  persons  or  voluntary  associations  desiring  to 
have  petition  circulated  may  make  special  deposit  of  money 
with  county  treasurer,  with  written  statement  showing  con- 
tributions and  persons  to  whom  payments  may  be  made  for 
services  in  procuring  signatures,  such  claims  duly  verified  and 
accompanied  with  affidavit  that  no  signature  has  been  secured 
by  false  representations,  to  be  allowed  by  Board  of  Supervis- 
ors out  of  such  special  fund,  actual  expenses,  together  with 
compensation  at  not  to  exceed  $3.00  a  day  may  be  allowed,  but 
no  payment  shall  be  made  on  basis  of  number  of  signatures 
secured.  Any  surplus  remaining  to  be  returned  to  depositor; 
if  not  sufficient  money  in  fund,  then  claims  to  be  reduced 
pro  rata. 

S.  B.  92.  Stuckenbruck.  Adding  Section  159c  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  making  it  a  misdemeanor  to  send  by  mail,  or 
otherwise,  threats  or  statements  that  judgments  rendered 
against   any   person   will   be   printed   or   published. 

S.  B.  645.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  161a,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to   the   practice   of  law. 

Makes  it  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person,  other  than  a  regu- 
larly licensed  attorney,  to  advertise  or  hold  himself  out  as  such. 

A.  B.  72.  Satterwhite.  Amending  Section  169,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  disclosing  evidence  adduced  before  the  Grand  Jury 
or  manner  grand  juror  voted. 

Includes  within  the  prohibition  of  the  section  "every  witness 
testifying  before  any  Grand  Jury,  and  any  other  person  present 
at  a  session  thereof". 

A.  B.  562.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  172,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  selling,  giving  away,  or  exposing  for  sale,  intoxi- 
cating, vinous  or  alcoholic  liquors  within  or  contiguous  to 
certain  State  buildings  and  grounds. 

Fixes  the  penalty  at  fine  of  not  less  than  $100  or  imprison- 
ment not  less  than  50  days,  or  both,  and  declares  possession 
by  a  person  within  the  prescribed  limits  of  a  United  States 
Government  liquor  license  shall  be  deemed  prima  facie  evi- 
dence of  violation. 

S.  B.  343.  Butler.  To  safeguard  the  youth  of  the  State,  in 
attendance  at  universities  and  normal  schools,  by  adding  a 
new  section  to  the  Penal  Code  of  California,  to  be  numbered 
Section    172b,    making   unlawful    the    soliciting   or    receiving    of 


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orders  for,  also  the  sale,  service  or  giving  away  of,  spirituous, 
vinous,  malt  or  other  alcoholic  liquors  on  or  within  one  mile 
of  any  university  or  State  normal  school,  with  certain  ex- 
ceptions. 

A.  B.  1407.  Ryan  (by  request).  Adding  Section  183  (new) 
to  the  Penal  Code,  to  regulate  the  charging  or  receiving  of  com- 
pensation for  treatment  of  diseases. 

Provides  that  the  treatment  of  disease  or  ailments  for  com- 
pensation by  any  unlicensed  person  is  a  felony,  and  repeals 
all  conflicting  Acts  and   parts  of  Acts. 

A.  B.  144.  Harris.  Amending  Section  190,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to   capital    punishment. 

Abolishes  death  penalty  for  murder  in  first  degree,  except 
in  case  of  an  assault  with  a  deadly  weapon  or  by  means  of 
force  likely  to  produce  great  bodily  harm,  by  a  person  under- 
going a  life  sentence  in  a  state   prison. 

A.  B.  592.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  192,  Penal  Code, 
defining   manslaughter. 

Adds  "or  in  the  violation  of  a  municipal  ordinance  or 
statute." 

S.  B.   1128.     Kehoe.     Identical  with  A.   B.  592.     Gebhart. 

S.  B.  703.  King.  Repealing  Section  258,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to  the  publication  of  caricatures  and  cartoons. 

S.  B.  704.  King.  Repealing  Section  259,  Penal  Code,  requir- 
ing certain  newspaper  articles  to  be  signed. 

A.  B.  7.  Ferguson.  Adding  Secton  260  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  publishing  indebtedness  as  part  of  scheme 
to  collect. 

Declares  it  unlawful  to  publish  or  threaten  to  publish  in  any 
newspaper,  hand  bill,  poster  or  serial  publication  or  supple- 
ment thereto,  without  written  consent  of  debtor,  the  fact  that 
one  is  indebted  to  another  on  an  account,  chose  in  action,  or 
judgment;  where  such  publication  is  for  purpose  of  impeach- 
ing the  honesty,  integrity  or  reputation  of  the  debtor  or  would 
tend  to  do  so,  and  is  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  payment; 
violation  declared  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  of  not 
less  than  $50  nor  more  than  $500,  or  by  imprisonment  not  less 
than  one  nor  more  than  six  months,  or  both.  No  defense  to 
prosecution    under   section    that   debt    is   just,    due   and    unpaid. 

A.  B.  288.  Browne.  Amending  Section  261,  Penal  Code, 
defining  the  crime  of  rape. 

Increases  the  age  of  the  female  to  twenty  years. 

A.  B.  287.  Browne.  Amending  Section  264,  Penal  Code,  by 
fixing  the  punishment  of  the  crime  of  rape  at  not  less  than 
twenty   nor   more    than    fifty   years. 

S.  B.  583.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  264,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  punishment  for  the  crime  of  rape. 


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Permits  the  court,  upon  a  plea  of  guilty,  to  determine  the 
place   and    time   of   punishment. 

A.  B.  702.     Quinn.      Identical   with    S.    B.    583.      Kehoe. 

A.  B.  78.  Hawson.  Amending  Sections  269a  and  269b,  Penal 
Code,   relating  to  adultery  and  fornication. 

Provides  (Sec.  269a)  that  if  two  unmarried  persons  live 
and  cohabit  together  open  and  notoriously  each  is  guilty  of 
fornication;  if  one  unmarried  and  one  married  person  so  live 
and  cohabit  together  each  is  guilty  of  fornication  and  adul- 
tery. Fornication  and  adultery  and  fornication  are  declared 
misdemeanors,  punishable  by  fine  not  exceeding  $1000  or  by 
imprisonment  not  exceeding  one  year  or  both.  The  fact  that 
no  one  but  themselves  knew  that  they  were  living  together 
without  marriage  shall  be  no  defense  to  a  prosecution  for 
either    offense. 

Also  (Sec.  269b)  provides  that  the  living  together  shall  be 
"open  and  notorious",  and  adds  provision  that  persons  so 
living  together  are  guilty  of  adultery  and  punishable  by  im- 
prisonment in  state  prison  not  exceeding,  five  years,  even 
though  no  one  knew  they  were  so  living  together  without 
marriage. 

A.  B.  1.  Arnerich  (by  request).  Adding  Section  269c  (new) 
to  the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  fornication  and  cohabitation 
between   either  Chinese  or  Japanese   males  and   white   females. 

Prohibits  such  acts,  makes  them  misdemeanors  and  declares 
every  white  woman  party   thereto  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  518.  Butler.  Amending  Section  270,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  non-support  of  child. 

Includes  illegitimate  children,  and  provides  that  the  non- 
support  must  be  "without  lawful   excuse". 

A.    B.    561.      Ryan.     Identical  with   S.    B.    518.     Butler. 

S.  B.  141.  S'tuckenbruck.  Amending  Sections  270,  270d,  270e 
and  273h,  Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  abandonment  and  neglect 
of  minor  children,  and  non-support  of  wife,  and  the  evidence 
required   to  prove  the  punishment  of  such  offenses. 

Substitutes  "minor"  child  or  "minor"  children  for  child  or 
children   in   all   four   sections. 

A.  B.  497.  Encell.  Amending  Section  274,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  administering  drugs,  etc.,  with  intent  to  produce 
miscarriage. 

Includes  any  person  who  offers  or  agrees  to  provide,  supply 
or  administer,  or  advises  the  use  of,  any  medicine,  drug  or 
substance,  or  agrees  or  offers  to  use  or  employ,  any  instru- 
ment,   to   procure   a   miscarriage. 

A.  B.  494.  Encell.  Amending  Section  275,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  submitting  to  an  attempt  to  produce  miscarriage. 

A.  B.  219.     Gebhart.     Adding  Section  288a  (new)  to  the  Penal 


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Code,  relating  to  sex  perversions  and  defining  the  same  to  be 
felonies. 

Declares  "fellatio"  and  "cumulingus"  felonies,  punishable 
by   not  less   than   20   years'    imprisonment. 

A.  B.  1471.  Browne.  Amending  Section  320,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  punishment  for  drawing  lottery. 

Increases  degree  from  misdemeanor  to  felony,  punishable 
by  imprisonment  for  not  less   than  one  year. 

A.  B.  178.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  321,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to    the   punishment   for   selling   lottery   tickets. 

S.  B.  504.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  321,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  punishment   for  selling  lottery   tickets. 

A.  B.  1472.  Browne.  Amending  Section  321,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to  the   punishment  for  selling  lottery   tickets. 

Increases  degree  from  misdemeanor  to  felony,  punishable 
by   imprisonment   for  not  less-  than   one  year. 

A.  B.  1470.  Browne.  Amending  Section  322,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  aiding  lotteries. 

Increases  degree  from  misdemeanor  to  felony,  punishable  by 
imprisonment  for  not  less'  than  one  year. 

A.  B.  179.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  327  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  punishment  for  selling  or  offering  for 
sale,   lottery  tickets. 

Provides  that  in  case  of  conviction  and  fine  for  selling  lottery 
tickets  half  the  fine  shall  be  paid  to  the  informer,  provided 
that  no  peace  officer  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  it. 

A.  B.  1473.  Browne.  Adding  Section  327  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,   relating  to   possession  of   lottery  tickets. 

Declares  such  possession  a  misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  236.  Phelps.  Adding  Section  330b  to  the  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  gambling  by  the  use  of  cards,  dice,  billiard  balls, 
pool   balls,   cues   or  other  devices. 

Declared  unlawful  for  any  person  to  maintain  any  place 
where  any  game  not  mentioned  in  Sections  330  and  330a,  Penal 
Code,  is  played  with  cards,  dice,  billiard  balls,  pool  balls,  cues, 
or  other  devices,  for  money,  checks,  chips,  credit,  or  any  other 
representative  of  value,  or  for  merchandise  or  otner  thing  of 
value;  or  to  knowingly  permit  any  house,  room,  apartment  or 
place  owned  by  him  or  under  his  charge  to  be  used  for  such 
purpose;  and  declaring  it  unlawful  to  play  or  bet  at  such 
game.  Violation  a  misdemeanor;  penalty,  fine  of  not  less  than 
$100  nor  more  than  $500,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six 
months,    or   both. 

A.  B.  686.  Benton.  Adding  Section  330b  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  prohibiting  the  shaking  of  dice  by  women  and 
minors,  and  declares  every  person  who  permits  it  to  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor. 

A.    B.    590.      Phillips.      Amending    Section    340,    Penal    Code, 


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relating    to    the    rate    of    interest    that    may    be    charged    by 
pawnbrokers. 

S.  B.  859.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  340,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  rate  of  interest  that  may  be  charged  by  pawn- 
brokers. 

Reduces  interest  rate  to  one  per  cent  per  month. 

A.  B.  633.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  349b  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  to  fix  the  punishment  for  fraudulent  advertising 
and  denning   the   same. 

Declares  such  acts  a  misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  362.  Spengler.  Adding  Sections  349b  and  349c  (new) 
to  the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  labor  unions. 

Provides  (Sec.  349b)  that  any  trades  union,  labor  associa- 
tion or  organization  adopting  and  registering  a  trademark, 
pursuant  to  Section  3200,  Political  Code,  shall  have  exclusive 
right  to  ownership,  use  and  control  thereof,  prohibits  the  un- 
authorized use  .thereof,  and  declares  violation  a  misdemeanor, 
punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $100  or  more  than  $500, 
or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  20  or  more  than  90  days, 
or  both. 

Also  prohibits  (Sec.  349c)  any  person  from  misrepresenting 
or  falsely  stating  that  members  of  trade  unions  and  labor 
associations  or  organizations  are  employed  in  the  manufacture 
or  sale  of  any  article  where  persons  not  members  of  such 
organizations  were  either  exclusively  or  partly  employed  in 
their  manufacture;  declares  violation  a  misdemeanor,  punish- 
able as  in  Section  349b. 

A.    B.    850.      Harris.      Adding    Sections    349b    and    349c    (new) 
to   the   Penal   Code,    relating   to   labor  unions. 
Similar  to  A.   B.   362.     Spengler. 

A.  B.  90.  Johnson.  Repealing  Section  373,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  maintenance  of  pest  houses  within  the  limits 
of   cities,    towns   or  villages. 

S.  B.  656.  Beban.  Repealing  Section  373,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  maintenance  of  pest  houses  within  the  limits  of 
cities,   towns  or  villages. 

A.  B.  639.  Brown.  Adding  Sections  373b,  373c  and  373d 
(new)  to  the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  public  nuisances,  and 
their  abatement,  and  conferring  certain  powers  upon  the  State 
Board   of   Health. 

Provides  (Sec.  373b)  that  where  no  board  of  health  exists 
in  any  county,  city  or  unincorporated  town  or  village,  or  none 
has  been  appointed  where  law  provides  for  such  board;  or  in 
case  sanitary  laws  or  regulations  where  boards  of  health  or 
health  officers  are  established  are  inoperative  or  unenforced, 
State  Board  of  Health  shall  make  such  regulations  respecting 
nuisances,  sources  of  filth  and  causes  of  sickness  as  may  be 
necessary. 


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Also  (Sec.  373c),  under  similar  circumstances,  State  Board 
of  Health  empowered  to  make  such  rules  and  regulations  in 
regard  to  care  and  cleansing  of  privies,  pig  pens,  slaughter 
houses  and  other  noxious  places,  as  they  deem  desirable  for 
protection  of  health,  and  may  declare  any  of  such  places 
nuisances  and  compel  their  immediate  removal,  discontinu- 
ance   and    abatement. 

And  also  (Sec.  373d)  declares  violation  of  any  rule  or  regula- 
tion of  the  State  Board  of  Health  hereunder  a  misdemeanor. 
S.  B.  915.  Flint.  Identical  with  A.  B.  639.  Brown. 
A.  B.  794.  Godsil  (by  request).  Adding  Section  383b  to 
the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  adulteration,  misbranding,  mis- 
labeling and  sale  of  white  lead,  pigments,  house,  shingle  or 
wood  stains  of  all  kinds,  kalsomines  for  walls  and  ceilings, 
house  paints,   etc. 

A.  B.  795.  Godsil  (by  request).  Adding  Section  383c  (new) 
to  the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  adulteration,  misbranding, 
mislabeling  and  sale  of  white  lead,  pigments,  house,  shingle, 
or  wood  stains  of  all  kinds,  kalsomines,  for  walls,  ceilings, 
house  paints,   etc. 

S.  B.  858.  Lyon.  Adding  Sections  384b  and  384c  (new)  to 
the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  keeping  perishable  foods  in  cold 
storage,  marking  the  date  thereof,  and  providing  a  penalty 
therefor. 

Provides  (Sec.  384b)  any  person  keeping  in  cold  storage  food 
for  human  consumption  of  perishable  nature  more  than  ninety 
days  is  guilty  of  misdemeanor;  and  (Sec.  384c)  making  it  a 
misdemeanor  to  receive  food  for  human  consumption  in  cold 
storage   without   marking  thereon   the   date   received. 

A.    B.    224.      Rodgers.      Amending    Section    397,    Penal    Code, 
.  relating  to  the  sale  or  disposal  of  intoxicating  liquors  between 
certain  hours. 

Permits  the  sale  of  liquor  all  night  until  January  1,   1916. 
A.   B.   1184.    Phelps.     Amending  Section  397,  Penal  Code,   re- 
lating to  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  to  habitual  drunkards 
or   Indians. 

Includes  also  persons  who  live  with  or  associate  with  In- 
dians. 

A.  B.  530.  Pettis  (by  request).  Adding  Section  397d  to 
the  Penal  Code,  providing  penalties  for  unlawful  sale  or  gifts 
of  intoxicating  liquor,  and  to  express  intent  and  purpose  of 
the    Act. 

Declares  such  acts  misdemeanors,  punishable  by  fine  of  not 
less  than  $600,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  seven  months, 
or   both. 

A.  B.  210.  Gelder.  Adding  Section  402f  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  requiring  any  physician,  nurse  or  other  person,  having 
charge  of  or  in  attendance  upon,  any  person  or  persons  having 


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or  being  afflicted  with  any  contagious,  infectious  or  communi- 
cable disease,  to  thoroughly  disinfect  himself  or  herself  or 
cause  such  disinfection  to  be  done,  and  in  addition  thereto  to 
put  on  an  entire  new  change  of  outer  garments  or  clothing 
which  have  not  been  exposed,  and  especially  to  remove  any 
and  all  clothing  or  garments  or  parts  thereof  that  have  been 
exposed,  and  every  physician,  nurse  or  other  person  who  shall 
not  wrap  up  such  clothing  in  some  airtight  device,  and  cause 
same  to  be  thoroughly  cleaned  and  disinfected  shall  be  guilty 
of  a   misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  726.  Chandler.  Adding  Section  472a  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  to  be  numbered  472a,  relating  to  signing  to  any 
initiative,  referendum  or  recall  petition  a  fictitious  name  or 
the  name   of  another. 

A.  B.  329.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  476a,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  issuance  of  bank  checks  with  the  intent  to 
defraud. 

Changes  punishment  to  imprisonment  "for  not  more  than 
fourteen   years". 

A.  B.  699.  Wishard.  Amending  Section  484,  Penal  Code, 
defining   larceny. 

A.  B.  654.  Encell.  Amending  Section  487,  Penal  Code,  de- 
fining  grand    larceny.      Includes    automobiles. 

S.  B.  198.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  499a,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  stealing  of  electric  current  and  the  injuring 
of  electric  wires  or  appliances,  and  providing  a  punishment 
therefor. 

Declares  every  person  who  "willfully  and  knowingly",  with 
intent  to  injure  or  defraud,  "makes  or  causes  to  be  made  any 
connection  in  any  manner  whatsoever  with  any  electric  wire 
or  electric  appliance",  or  uses  any  such  connection  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  supply  electric  current  for  heat,  light  or  power, 
so  that  same  is  consumed  without  passing  through  any  meter, 
or  who  tampers  with  any  electric  meter,  is  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor. 

A.   B.    254.      Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.    B.    198.     Ballard. 

A.  B.  373.  Chamberlin.  Adding  Section  504a  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  relating  to  embezzlement,  removal  and  disposal  of 
leased  property. 

Declares  that  any  person  who  shall  embezzle,  fraudulently 
remove,  conceal  or  dispose  of  any  personal  property  leased  or 
let  to  him  by  instrument  in,  writing,  or  any  personal  property 
of  another  in  his  possession  under  contract  of  purchase  not  yet 
fulfilled,  with  intent  to  defraud  the  lessor  or  owner,  is  guilty 
of  embezzlement. 

A.  B.  539.  Prendergast.  Adding  Section  506a  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,   relating  to  crime  of  embezzlement. 


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S.  B.  1197.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  508a  (new)  to  the 
Penal   Code,    relating   to   insurance   premiums. 

Declares  the  conversion  or  appropriation  of  money  received 
by  any  insurance  agent,  solicitor  or  broker,  as  premium  or 
return  premium,  contrary  to  instructions  or  without  consent 
of  insurance  company,  embezzlement,  irrespective  of  such 
broker,   solicitor  or  agent  having  any  interest  therein. 

A.  B.  1367.  Meek.  Adding  Section  532b  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  concealment  or  misrepresentation  of 
identity  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  property  or  credit  and 
prescribing   the    punishment    therefor. 

Makes  such  action  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of 
not  more  than  $500,  or  by  imprisonment  not  more  than  six 
months,  or  both.  "Person"  defined  to  include  natural  persons, 
firms  and  corporations. 

A.  B.  1258.  Hawson.  Repealing  Section  537,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  defrauding  proprietors  of  hotels,   inns,   etc. 

A.  B.  1257.  Hawson.  Repealing  Section  537b,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to   defrauding  owners   of  livery   stables. 

S.  B.  58.  Finn.  Adding  Section  537d  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code   making   it   a   misdemeanor   to   defraud   a   garage   keeper. 

A.  B.  378.     Chamberlin.     Identical  with  S.  B.  58.     Finn. 

A.  B.  1163.  Lyon.  Adding  Section  555a  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code. 

A.  B.  1192.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  588  of  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  malicious  injuries  to  any  State  or  other 
public  highway  or  bridge  or  any  private  way  laid  out  by  au- 
thority of  law,  or  bridge  upon  any  such  highway  or  private 
way. 

S.  B.  1073.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  588,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  malicious  injuries  to  any  State  or  other  public  highway 
or  bridge  or  any  private  way  laid  out  by  authority  of  law,  or 
bridge  upon  any  such  highway  or  private  way. 

Makes  such  acts,  where  damage  amounts  to  $500  or  more, 
punishable  by  imprisonment  in  State  prison  not  exceeding  five 
years,  or  in  county  jail  not  exceeding  one  year;  if  damage  less 
than    $500,    action    is    misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  841.  Wishard.  Amending  Section  588a,  Penal  Code, 
making  it  a  misdemeanor  to  throw  glass  or  rubbish  on  a 
public  highway. 

Includes  newspaper,  wrapping  paper  or  other  rubbish  in 
prohibition  of  section. 

S.  B.  551.  Birdsall.  Adding  Section  588b  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  concerning  the  breaking  down,  removal,  injury 
or  destruction  of  barriers  or  obstructions,  the  tearing  down, 
removal  or  destruction  of  notices,  or  the  extinguishment,  re- 
moval, injury  or  destruction  of  warning  lights  or  lanterns  on 


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a  State  road  or  highway,  and  prescribing  a  penalty  for  the 
violation  of  such  section. 

A.  B.  747.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.   551.     Birdsall. 

S.  B.  550.  Birdsall.  Adding  .Section  588c  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  concerning  the  injury,  defacement  or  removal  of 
monuments  or  stakes  placed,  erected  or  used  by  the  State 
Department  of  Engineering,  its  officers  or  employees  on  or 
along  any  State  road  or  highway  or  in  connection  with  State 
road  or  highway  work,  and  prescribing  penalty  for  the  viola- 
tion of  such  section. 

A.  B.  748.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.   B.  550.     Birdsall. 

A.  B.  171.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  592,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  water,  ditches,  etc.,  and  the  penalty  for  trespass 
or   interference    therewith. 

Makes  violation  of  by-laws,  rules  and  regulations  established 
by  board  of  directors  of  an  irrigation  district  for  distribution 
and  use  of  water  among  owners  of  lands  a  misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  61.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  597b  (1),  Penal  Code, 
relating    to    cruelty    to    animals. 

Provides  that  any  person  who  for  amusement  or  gain  causes 
any  animal  or  bird  to  fight,  or  causes  any  animal  or  bird  to 
be  worried  or  injured  or  subjected  to  fear,  or  who  aids  or 
abets  the  doing  of  such  acts  or  is  present  as  a  spectator 
thereat,  or  who  permits  such  acts  to  be  done  on  premises 
under   his    charge    and    control,    is   guilty   of   a   misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  823.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  602,  Penal 
Code,    relating   to   trespass. 

S.  B.  49.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  206.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to    the   protection   of   fish    and   game. 

S.  B.  240.  Rush.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to   the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

S.  B.  757.  Flint.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing  to   the   protection   of   fish   and   game. 

A.  B.  950.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  984.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  626  of  the  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  game  birds. 

A.  B.  1052.  Judson.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to   the  protection   of  fish  and   game. 

S.  B.  1096.  Luce.  Amending  Section  626,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  cotton-tail  rabbit,  bush  rabbit,  ducks, 
snipe,  quail  and  other  animals. 

S.  B.  15.  King.  Amending  Sections  626,  626f,  and  626g  of 
the  Penal  Code  of  the  State  of  California,  relating  to  the 
protection  of  fish  and  game. 

S.    B.    593.      Irwin.     Amending   Sections   626a,    626f  and   626j, 


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and  repealing  Section  626i  of  the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  fish 
and   game. 

S.  B.  50.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  626a,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to   the   protection   of   doves. 

S.  B.  226.  Lyon.  Adding  Section  626a  (new),  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  hunting  or  shooting  of  game  or  game 
birds  with  automatic  shotguns  or  pump  guns. 

S.  B.  769.  Scott.  Amending  Section  626a,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  965.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626a,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  964.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626d,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

S.  B.  971.  Flint.  Amending  Section  626d,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

S.  B.  825.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  626e,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  952.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626e,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  1123.  McCray.  Amending  Section  626e,  Penal  Code, 
relating    to   protection   of   female   deer. 

S.  B.  831.  Flint.  Amending  Section  626f,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  955.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626f,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  987.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  626f,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  deer. 

S.  B.  833.  Butler.  Amending  Section  626g,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  957.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626g,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  game. 

S.  B.  743.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  626j,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  953.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626j,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  1442.  Judson.  Amending  Section  626k,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  sale  and  shipment  of  wild  game  and  the  dead 
bodies  or  other  parts   thereof. 

S.  B.  756.  Flint.  Amending  Section  626m,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  hunting  between  one-half  hour  after  sunset  and 
one-half  hour  before  sunrise. 

A.  B.  951.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626m,  Penal  Code,  re' 
lating  to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

S.  B.  742.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  626n,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 

A.  B.  954.  Ream.  Amending  Section  626n,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish  and  game. 


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S.  B.  851.  Breed.  Adding  Section  626r  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code   relating   to   the   protection   of  fish   and   game. 

A.  B.  961.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.   B.   851.     Breed. 

S.  B.  853.  Breed.  Adding  Section  626s  to  the  Penal  Code 
relating    to    the    protection    of    game. 

A.  B.  972.     Ream.     Identical  with   S.   B.   853.     Breed. 

A.  B.  1179.  Judson.  Adding  Section  627c  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  shipment  and  transportation  of  wild 
ducks,   or   the  dead  bodies   thereof. 

S.  B.  484.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  628,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  and  preservation  of  fish. 

S.  B.  768.  Scott.  Amending  Section  628,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to  the   protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  956.  Ream.  Amending  Section  628,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  1095.  Luce.  Amending  Section  628,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  shrimp,  lobster,  catfish,  sturgeon,  crab, 
abalone,   and   prohibiting   the   use   of   certain  apparatus. 

S.  B.  911.  Beban.  Amending  Sections  628,  63i%  and  636, 
Penal  Code,  all  relating  to  the  protection  and  preservation  of 
fish. 

A.  B.  1202.  Prendergast  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B. 
911.      Beban. 

S.  B.  741.  Gerdes.  Adding  Section  628a  to  the  Penal  Code, 
relating   to   the  protection   of   fish. 

A.  B.  962.  Ream.  Amending  Section  628a,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  975.  Flint.  Amending  Section  628a,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  688.  Mott.  To  amend  Section  628b,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  949.  Ream.  Amending  Section  628b,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  1270.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  628b,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  1001.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  628e,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  surf  fish. 

S.  B.  485.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  628f,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to   protection   of   clams. 

S.  B.  826.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  628f,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to   the  protection   of   shell   fish. 

S.  B.  919.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  628f,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  protection  of  clams. 

A.  B.  963.  Ream.  Amending  Section  628f,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  shell  fish. 

A.  B.  1078.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  628f,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  protection  of  clams. 

A.  B.  948.  Ream.  Adding  Section  628h  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  protection  of  fish. 


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S.  B.  836.  Beban.  Adding  Section  628i  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code   relating   to   the   protection   of  fish. 

Prohibits  use  of  "Chinese  shrimp  or  bagnet"  except  in  waters 
of  District  No.  13. 

A.   B.   970.     Ream.     Identical  with   S.   B.   836.     Beban. 

S.  B.  155.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  629,  Penal  Code,  rela- 
tive to  the  placing  and  maintaining  of  screens  over  the  inlets 
of  pipes,  flumes,  ditches,  canals,  and  mill  races,  taking  water 
from  any  river,  creek,  stream  or  lake  in  which  fish  have  been 
placed    or   may   exist. 

S.  B.  852.  Breed.  Amending  Section  630a,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  regulation  of  the  business  of  wholesale  dealers 
in  fish  and  game  and  providing  for  a  record  of  the  transac- 
tions   therein. 

A.  B.  968.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.  852.     Breed. 

A.  B.  973.  Ream.  Amending  Sections  1  and  2  of  Section 
631d,  Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  domestication  of  wild  game. 

S.  B.  974.  Flint.  Amending  Sections  1  and  2  of  Section 
631d,   Penal  Code,   relating  to  the  domestication  of  wild  game. 

S.  B.  28.  King.  Amending  Section  632,  Penal  Code,  relating 
to    the    protection    and    preservation   of   fish. 

S.  B.  699.  Brown.  Amending  Section  632,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  960.  Ream.  Amending  Section  632,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to   the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  986.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  632,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to   fish   and   game. 

A.  B.  1160.  Cary.  Amending  Sections  632  and  632a,  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  preservation  of  fish  and  adding  a  new 
section  thereto,  to  be  numbered  Section  632c,  relating  to  the 
importation  into  the  State  of  California  of  domestically  reared 
trout. 

S.  B.  14.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  632^  of  the  Penal 
Code  of  the  State  of  California,  relating  to  the  protection  of 
steelhead   trout. 

S.  B.  830.  Flint.  Amending  Section  633,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing  to   the   protection   of  fish. 

A.  B.  971.  Ream.  Amending  Section  633,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  532.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  634,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to   the    protection    of    salmon. 

S.  B.  530.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  634,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  salmon. 

S.  B.  705.  King.  Amending  Section  634,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  210.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  634%  to  the  Penal 
Code,    relating    to    fishing. 

S.   B.   755.     Flint.     Amending  Section  635,   Penal  Code,   relat- 


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ing  to  the  killing  or  taking  of  fish  by  means  of  explosives 
or  the  pollution  of  waters. 

Includes  "or  who  has  in  his  possession  any  fish  that  have 
been    taken   by   means   of   explosives". 

A.  B.  959.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.  755.     Flint. 

A.  B.  966.  Ream.  Amending  Section  636,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  973.  Flint.  Amending  Section  636,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  1094.  Luce.  Amending  Section  636,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  the  use  of  net  for  the  catching  of  fish,  shellfish,  shrimp 
or  crabs  in  the  waters  of  the  State. 

A.  B.  969.  Ream.  Amending  Section  636^,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

S.  B.  972.  Flint.  Amending  Section  636M$,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating  to   the   protection   of   fish. 

S.  B.  156.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  637,  Penal  Code,  rela- 
tive to  the  examination  by  the  State  Board  of  Fish  Commis- 
sioners of  dams  and  artificial  obstructions  in  rivers  and 
streams,  and  ordering  of  construction  and  maintaining  fish- 
ways  around  or  over  dams  and  artificial  obstructions  in  rivers 
and  streams. 

A.  B.  958.  Ream.  Amending  Section  637,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  protection  of  fish. 

A.  B.  1408.  Canepa  (by  request).  Amending  Section  637a, 
637f,  637d  and  637e,  Penal  Code,  all  relating  to  protection  of 
wild  birds  other  than  game  birds,  and  their  nests  and  eggs. 

A.  B.  1413.  Long.  Amending  Section  637a,  Penal  Code,  and 
adding  thereto  three  new  sections  to  be  numbered  637f,  637d 
and  637e,  all  relating  to  protection  of  wild  birds  other  than 
game  birds,   and   their  nests  and   eggs. 

S.  B.  832.  Flint.  Adding  Section  637b  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,   relating  to  the  protection  of  game. 

A.  B.  967.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.  832.     Flint. 

S.  B.  311.  Scott  (by  request).  Amending  Section  640,  Penal 
Code,   relating  to  telegraph  and   telephone  lines  and  messages. 

Declares  it  unlawful  to  tap  or  make  any  unauthorized  con- 
nection with  any  telegraph  or  telephone  wire,  line,  cable  or 
instrument,  under  the  control  of  any  telephone  or  telegraph 
company,  or  to  read  or  attempt  to  read  or  learn  the  contents 
or  meaning  of  any  message,  report  or  communication  while 
same  is  in  transit  or  passing  over  such  wires,  or  to  use  or 
attempt  to  use  or  communicate  in  any  way  information  so 
obtained,  or  to  aid  therein;  penalty  same  as  prescribed  in 
Section  639,  Penal  Code. 

A.   B.   292.     Ryan.     Identical  with   S.   B.   311.      Scott. 

A.  B.  321.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  647,  Penal  Code, 
relating    to   vagrancy. 


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Provides  (Subd.  2),  "Every  healthy  beggar  who  solicits  alms 
as  a  business,  and  any  person  who  solicits  or  attempts  to 
solicit  .or  procure  money  or  other  thing  of  value  by  falsely 
pretending  or  representing  himself  to  be  blind,  deaf,  dumb, 
crippled,  or  otherwise  physically  deficient  or  suffering  from 
any  physical   defect  or  infirmity",    is   a  vagrant. 

A.  B.  1189.  Johnson.  Adding  Section  653e  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  providing  that  contractors  on  public  work  shall 
pay  laborers,  workmen  and  mechanics  employed  by  them 
weekly  all  wages  earned  to  within  six  days  of  date  of  pay- 
ment; employees  leaving  shall  be  paid  in  full  on  next  pay  day 
and  employees  discharged  shall  be  paid  in  full  on  day  of 
discharge.  All  contracts  awarded  by  the  State  or  political 
subdivisions  shall  contain  a  stipulation  that  contractor  will 
forfeit  $10  for  each  day  during  which  wages  are  not  paid  as 
herein  provided;  violation  declared  a  misdemeanor,  punishable 
by  fine  not  exceeding  $500,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding 
6  months,   or  both. 

S.  B.  404.  Brown.  Amending  Section  654a,  Penal  Code,  de- 
claring false  representations  as  to  property  advertised  to  be 
sold   and   service   advertised   to   be    performed   a   misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  818.  Gerdes.  Adding  Section  654b  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  protection  of  the  purchasers  of  real 
estate   against   fraud   and   deception. 

Declares  it  a  misdemeanor  to  misrepresent  the  extent,  loca- 
tion, ownership,  title  or  other  characteristic,  quality,  or 
attribute  of  any  real  estate  in  this  State,  or  the  motive  or 
purpose  of  the  sale  of  such  real  estate  to  an  intending  or 
prospective    purchaser. 

A.  B.  817.     Ferguson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  818.     Gerdes. 

A.  B.  275.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Section  680  to  the  Penal 
Code,  prohibiting  the  appointment  to  office  of  relatives  by 
state  officers  and  judges;  declaring  violation  a  misdemeanor, 
and  fixing  the  penalty  for  making  such  appointments  at  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  $100  nor  more  than  $1000  and  forfeiture 
of  office. 

A.  B.  525.  Godsil.  Adding  Section  680a  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  compulsion  of  employees. 

Declares  any  employer,  or  officer  or  agent  of  an  employer, 
who  shall  control  or  interfere  with,  or  attempt  to  do  so,  the 
social  and  business  dealings  of  his  employees  outside  of  the 
scope  of  their  employment,  to  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  512.     Beban.     Identical  with  A.  B.  525.     Godsil. 

S.  B.  783.  Finn.  Amending  Section  681,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  punishment  and  treatment  of  prisoners,  inmates  of 
reformatory  institutions,  and  persons  accused  or  suspected  of 
having  committed  crime. 

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legal  conviction  in  court  having  jurisdiction  thereof;  no  per- 
son accused  or  suspected  of  crime  shall  be  subjected  to  any 
punishment  or  method  of  examination  inflicting  physical  pain, 
or  which  impairs  mental  or  bodily  faculties,  or  deprived  of 
regular  sleep,  food  and  drink,  or  confined  in  unsanitary  place; 
nor  shall  any  person  restrained  of  his  liberty  be  subjected  to 
any  cruel  and  unusual  punishments;  various  forms  of  pun- 
ishment enumerated  are  prohibited.  Violation  is  declared  a 
misdemeanor,  and  in  addition  to  penalty  imposed  by  court 
iMisiii)  convicted  shall  be  dismissed  from  his  office  or  em- 
ployment and  shall  thereafter  be  ineligible  to  similar  em- 
ployment. 

A.  B.  877.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.  B.  783.     Finn. 

A.  B.  572.  Anderson.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  16, 
1913,  to  add  a  new  section  to  the  Penal  Code  of  the  State  of 
California  under  Title  XVI  thereof,  to  be  numbered  681,  pro- 
hibiting the  use  of  cruel  and  unusual  punishments  in  state 
prisons  and  reformatory  institutions,  by  amending  the  subject- 
matter  thereof  and  amending  the  title  of  said  Act  to  read 
"Section  681a  of  the  Penal  Code". 

Forbids  any  punishments  which  will  impair  the  mental  or 
physical  efficiency  of  any  prisoner,  and  prohibits  in  addition 
to  other  punishments  specified,  the  water  cure,  heating,  with- 
holding of  proper  clothing,  food,  educatonal  or  correspondence 
privileges;  and  declares  it  unlawful  for  anyone  having  authority 
over  prisoners  to  use  vile,  indecent  or  profane  language  in 
their  presence  or  toward  them,  to  use  violence,  or  to  be  under 
the   influence   of   liquor. 

No  rule  shall  be  made  without  their  being  posted  where  all 
prisoners  may  read  them,  nor  shall  any  rule  be  made  im- 
posing as  a  penalty  prevention  of  release  or  parole  unless 
such  violation  is  a  violation  of  some  penal  law  of  the  State. 
Any  board  or  persons  in  authority  over  prisons  violating  pro- 
visions of  this  section  shall  be  immediately  dismissed  upon 
proof  thereof  before  any  Superior  Court  judge  in  county  where 
institution  is  located. 

A.  B.  359.  Harris.  Amending  Section  770,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  appeal  from  a  judgment  of  removal  from  office. 

Provides  for  appeal  to  the  District  Court  of  Appeal  instead 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  for  the  issuance  of  a  certificate  of 
probable  cause  by  a  justice  of  the  District  Court  of  Appeal, 
and  strikes  out  the  words  "or  within  20  days  after  such  judg- 
ment is  entered"  from  the  sentence  relating  to  the  bill  of 
exceptions. 

A.  B.  1331.  Dennett  (by  request).  Amending  Section  772, 
Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  removal  of  public  officers  by  sum- 
mary proceedings  before  the  Superior  Court. 

A.   B.   1132.     Scott,   C.   E.     Adding  Section   804    (new)   to   the 


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Penal  Code,  relating  to  proof  of  residence  as  affirmative  defense. 

A.  B.  498.  Encell.  Amending  Section  817,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to  who   are   peace   officers. 

Includes   officers   of  the   Board   of   Medical   Examiners. 

S.  B.  850.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  868,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  who  may  be  present  at  an  examination  before  a 
magistrate. 

Adds  a  provision  that  when  prosecuting  witness  is  a  female 
she  shall  be  entitled  at  all  times  to  the  attendance  of  a 
person  of  her  own  sex. 

A.  B.  103.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  925,  Penal  Code,  rela- 
tive to  proceedings  before  the  Grand  Jury,  the  persons  who 
may  be  present  at  the  session  of  such  jury,  and  the  records 
of  testimony  taken  at  such  session. 

Amendment  is  only  a  change  in  verbiage  and  does  not  change 
the   effect    of   the   section. 

A.  B.  1178.  Beck  (by  request).  Amending  Section  925  of 
the  Penal  Code,  relating  to  grand  juries. 

Provides  that  the  District  Attorney  shall  advise  the  grand 
jury   "when  requested  by  them". 

A.  B.  73.  Satterwhite.  Amening  Section  926,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  keeping  secret  testimony  before  Grand  Jury  or 
manner  in  which  grand  juror  voted  on  any  matter. 

Includes  "every  witness  testifying  before  such  Grand  Jury 
and    every   other   person   present   at    a   session    thereof". 

S.  B.  574.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  928,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  grand  juries,  permitting  the  use  of  the  accounting 
department  of  the  State  Board  of  Control  by  the  grand  juries 
of  the  several  counties  of  the  State  instead  of  employing 
"experts". 

S.  B.  1147.  Campbell  (by  request).  Amending  Section  928, 
Penal  Code,  relating  to  powers  and  duties  of  Grand  Juries. 

Adds  at  end  that  comments  as  to  any  person  or  official  not 
indicted  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be  privileged  "except  insofar 
as  they  may  be  statements  of  fact." 

S.  B.  1160.  Hans.  Amending  Section  928,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  Grand  Jury  examination  of  books  of  officers  of  a 
county. 

Provides  that  compensation  of  expert  shall  be  paid  ".as 
other  county  charges"  without  approval  of  court;  and  strikes 
out  provision  that  Grand  Jury  first  impaneled  in  odd-num- 
bered years  shall  investigate  and  report  upon  needs  of  county 
officers,  including  increases  or  decreases  of  salaries,  etc.,  and 
report  same  to  members  of  Legislature  representing  county. 

A.  B.  74.  Satterwhite.  Adding  Section  930  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  relating  to  a  foreman  pro  tern,  for  the  Grand  Jury. 

Provides    that    in    the    absence    of    the    foreman    or    his    dis- 


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qualification  to  act,  the  Grand  Jury  may  select  a  member  to 
act  as  foreman  pro  tern. 

A.  B.  518.  Dennett.  Adding  Section  946  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  the  powers  of  Grand  Juries,  and  providing 
for  the  appointment  of  a  special  attorney  by  Grand  Juries. 

Permits  Grand  Juries,  by  two-thirds  vote,  to  appoint  an 
attorney  at  law  to  act  as  its  attorney  and  legal  adviser,  who 
shall  be  vested  with  all  the  authority  of  the  District  Attorney, 
and  shall  fix  his  salary,  which  shall  not  exceed  that  of  the 
District  Attorney  for  the  time  such  special  attorney  is  actually 
employed. 

S.  B.  378.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  954,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  charging  two  or  more  different  offenses  in  indict- 
ments   and    informations. 

Provides  that  two  or  more  different  offenses  connected  to- 
gether in  their  commission,  or  two  or  more  different  offenses 
of  the  same  class  may  be  charged,  and  if  two  or  more  in- 
dictments or  informations  are  filed  in  such  cases  the  court 
may  order  them  to  be  consolidated.  The  prosecution  is  not 
required  to  elect,  and  the  defendant  may  be  convicted  of  any 
number  of  the  offenses  charged,  and  each  offense  upon  which 
defendant  is  convicted  must  be  stated  in  the  verdict. 

A.  B.  826.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  987,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  appointment  and  compensation  of  counsel  as- 
signed by  the  court  to  defend  persons  unable  to  employ  counsel. 

Provides  that  compensation  of  counsel  so  assigned  shall 
be   fixed   by   court   and   be   a   charge   upon   the   county. 

A.  B.  1134.  Scott,  C.  E.  Amending  Section  990,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  how  defendant  may  answer  on  arraignment. 

A.  B.  11.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  1042,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  trials  below  grade  of  felony. 

Provides  that  in  cases  of  vagrancy,  disturbing  the  peace  and 
:all  minor  offenses  the  court  may  deny  trial  by  jury,  and  if 
defendant  be  convicted  he  shall  be  punished  by  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding $50  or  imprisoned  in  county  jail  not  exceeding  30  days, 
or  both. 

S.  B.  599.  Butler.  Amending  Section  1046,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  formation  of  the  trial  jury  in  criminal  actions. 

Provides  that  jurors  of  both  sexes  shall  serve  on  juries  in 
criminal  cases. 

A.  B.  1135.  Scott,  C.  E.  Amending  Section  1049,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  time  to  prepare  for  trial. 

A.  B.  107.  Marron.  Amending  Section  1072,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  general  causes   of  challenge. 

Adds  as  a  fourth  ground  of  challenge  "Having  served  as  a 
juror  within   one  year  in  any  criminal  action." 

S.  B.  779.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.  B.  107. 

S.   B.   139.     Luce.     Adding  Section  1074a   (new)   to  the  Penal 


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Code,   relating  to   examining,   challenging  and   excusing  jurors. 

Provides'  that  court,  without  aid  of  counsel,  shall  ascertain 
whether  any  general  or  particular  cause  of  challenge  prescribed 
by  Sections  1072,  1073  and  1074.  Penal  Code  exists  against 
any  juror,  and  if  such  exist,  juror  must  be  excused.  During 
examination  of  jurors  by  court,  counsel  may  interpose  chal- 
lenges and  may  examine  juror  within  reasonable  limits  fixed 
by  court.  After  twelve  jurors  have  been  called  against  whom 
no  general  or  particular  cause  of  challenge  hast  been  allowed, 
counsel  shall  have  right  of  examination  for  purpose  of  deter- 
mining exercise  of  peremptory  challenges,  within  such  rea- 
sonable limits  as  court  in  its  discretion,  shall  determine.  No 
reversal  on  appeal  shall  be  predicated  on  any  ruling  under 
this  section  except  for  gross  abuse  of  discretion. 

A.  B.  618.  Edwards.  Amending  Section  1093,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  order  of  trial. 

S.  B.  154.  Kehoe.  Adding  Section  1098a  (new)  to  the  Penal 
Code,  relating  to  providing  places  where  county  jail  prisoners 
may   exercise. 

Each  county  jail  shall  have  a  yard  or  uncovered  corridor, 
surrounded   by  an   enclosure,   in   which   prisoners   may   exercise. 

A.  B.  1159.  Gebhart  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1109, 
Penal   Code,   relating  to  evidence   required  in  certain  cases. 

A.  B.  250.  Ferguson.  Amending  Section  1203,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  probation  of  persons  arrested  for  a  crime  after 
a  plea  or  verdict  of  guilty  and  the  suspending  of  the  imposition 
or  execution  of  sentence  during  the  term  of  probation,  and  the 
dispositon  of  such  accusation  after  full  compliance  with  the 
terms   of   probation. 

S.  B.  477.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1111,  Penal  Code,  relat- 
ing to  corroboration  of  accomplices  and  definition  thereof. 

Defines  "accomplice"  as  one  who  is  liable  to  prosecution  for 
identical  offense  charged  against  aefendant  on  trial  in  cause 
in  which  testimony  of  accomplice  is  given. 

A.  B.  293.  Chenoweth.  Amending  Section  1228,  Penal  Code, 
relative  to  capital  punishment,  by  substituting  electrocution 
for    hanging. 

S.  B.  526.  Shearer  (by  request).  Identical  with  A.  B.  293. 
Chenoweth. 

S.  B.  785.  Finn.  Amending  Sections  1246,  1247,  1247a  and 
1247e,  Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  duty  of  the  clerk  upon 
appeal,  and  to  the  preparation  of  records  to  be  used  on  appeal 
from  judgments,  orders  or  proceedings  of  the  Superior  Courts 
to  the  Supreme  Court  or  the  District  Court  of  Appeal  in 
criminal  cases. 

Provides  (Sec.  1246)  for  a  typewritten  or  printed  transcript, 
allows  40  days  to  send  it  up;  provides  that  defendant  or  his 
attorney  shall  be  served  with  a  copy  of  the  transcript;  ap- 
pellant or  his  attorney  may  designate  whether  transcript  shall 


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be  typewritten  or  printed;  omits  (Sec.  1247)  provision  that 
record  shall  be  typewritten.  Reduces  (Sec.  1247a)  the  time 
to  five  days;  preparation  of  any  record  on  appeal  (Sec.  1247e) 
in  a  criminal  case  shall  be  under  direction  and  control  of 
clerk  of  court  from  which  appeal  is  taken,  and  shall  be  charge 
on  and  paid  by  county. 

A.  B.  891.     Byrnes.     Identical  with  S.  B.  785.     Finn. 

A.  B.  1417.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  1305,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  forfeiture  of  bail  and  the  discharge  of  bail 
forfeiture,  by  adding  thereto  a  provision  that  such  bail  may 
be  refunded  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  if  such  bail  be  the 
sole  cause  of  the  appearance  and  return  to  custody  of  defend- 
ant,  upon  the   conviction  of  defendant. 

A.  B.  771.  Edwards.  Amending  Section  1333,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  manner  of  producing  before  a  Superior  Court, 
grand  jury  or  magistrate  a  witness  who  is  a  prisoner  in  a 
State  prison  or  county  jail. 

Made  applicable  to  witnesses  for  both  prosecution  and 
defense,  and  provides  that  in  case  prison  or  jail  is  out  of  the 
county,  order  shall  be  made  only  on  affidavit  of  District  At- 
torney or  prosecutor,  or  of  defendant  or  his  counsel,  that 
testimony  is  material  and  necessary. 

S.  B.  1003.  Jones.  Amending  Sections  1349,  1350,  1352,  1353 
and  1355,  Penal  Code,  relating  to  the  examination  of  witnesses 
on    commission. 

Extends  to  the  people  the  right  to  have  a  witness  residing 
out   of  the   State   examined   on   commission. 

A.  B.  1217.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1003.     Jones. 

A.  B.  1133.  Scott,  C.  E.  Amending  Section  1382,  Penal  Code, 
relating   to  time  when  action  may  be  dismissed. 

A.  B.  1136.  Scott,  C.  E.  Amending  Section  1385,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  dismissal  of  action. 

Provides  that  upon  motion  of  the  District  Attorney,  a  magis- 
trate, justice  of  the  Peace  or  other  court  shall  order  any  pend- 
ing prosecution  dismissed. 

A.  B.  934.  Rutherford.  Amending  Section  1431,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  transfer  of  actions. 

Provides  that  section  not  to  be  construed  as  prohibiting 
transfer  from  justices'  court  to  police  court  and  vice  versa, 
but  any  fine  recovered  upon  judgment  shall  accrue  to  juris- 
diction of  original  venue. 

A.  B.  1012.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  1434,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  presence  of  the  defendant  at  the  time  of  trial 
in  justices'  court. 

Provides  that  defendant  must  be  present  and  be  arraigned. 

A.  B.  1013.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  1438,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  conduct  of  trial  in  justices'  court. 

A.    B.    1011.      Hawson.     Amending   Section   1439,    Penal    Code, 


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relating-  to  the  duty  of  the  court  in  charging-  the  jury  in  crim- 
inal trials,   in  justices'   courts. 

A.  B.  121.  Bartlett.  Amending  Section  1449,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  time  for  rendering  judgment  in  justices'  and 
police   courts. 

Adds  provision  that  court  may  extend  time  not  more  than 
10  days  to  hear  or  determine  motion  for  new  trial  or  in 
arrest  of  judgment,  and  may  extend  time  not  more  than  15 
days  where  question  of  suspended  sentence  or  probation  is 
considered  in  accordance  with  Section  1203,  Penal  Code,  pro- 
vided that  upon  request  of  defendant  time  may  be  further 
extended   not   more   than   30  days  additional. 

A.  B.  536.  Gebhart.  Adding  Section  1506  (new)  to  the 
Penal  Code,  providing  for  appeals  in  proceedings  in  habeas 
corpus. 

Permits  an  appeal  from  an  order  refusing  a  writ  of  habeas 
corpus,  or  from  a  final  order  upon  return  of  writ  discharging 
or  remanding  a  prisoner  or  dismissing  the  proceedings.  Where 
order  is  made  to  discharge  a  prisoner,  an  appeal  may  be 
taken  by  the  people,  but  the  discharge  of  the  prisoner  on 
bail   shall   not   be  stayed   thereby. 

S.  B.  527.     iTyrrell.     Identical  with  A.  B.   536.     Gebhart. 

A.  B.  290.  Collins.  Amending  Section  1576,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  State  Board  of  Prison 
Directors. 

Adds  a  provision  that  no  guard  shall  be  required  or  permitted 
to   work   more    than    eight   hours   in   any    twenty-four. 

A.  B.  331.  Chenoweth.  Amending  Section  1576,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  State  Board  of  Prison 
Directors. 

S.  B.  733.  Flaherty.  Amending  Section  1587,  Penal  Code, 
relating  to  the   treatment   of  prisoners   in   State   prisons. 

S.  B.  478.  Beban.  Amending  Section  1613,  Penal  Code,  re- 
lating to   labor  of  prisoners. 

Provides  that  prisoners  shall  be  required  to  work  only  within 
the  limits  of  the  county  jail  and  makes  it  a  misdemeanor  for 
any  public  officer  or  other  person  resnonsible  to  direct  or  per- 
mit them  to  do  so. 

A.  B.  521.     McDonald,  W.  A.     Identical  with  S.  B.  478.     Beban. 


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POLITICAL   CODE. 

S.  B.  86.  Slater.  Amending  Section  10,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  holidays.  Declares  February  12,  "Lincoln  Day," 
a   legal   holiday. 

S,  B.  855.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  55,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the   State   Board   of  Control. 

S.  B.  71.  Duncan.  Repealing  Section  55a,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  soliciting,  demanding,  or  pledging  votes  for  or 
against  any  particular  bill  or  measure. 

A.  B.  217.  Wills.  Amending  Section  162,  Political  Code,  es- 
tablishing the  legal  distance  from  the  county  seat  of  Imperial 
County  to   Sacramento  at  661   miles. 

S.  B.  623.  Slater.  Amending  Section  205,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  officers  of  the  Senate. 

Provides  that  officers  of  Senate  shall  be  a  president,  a  presi- 
dent pro  tern.,  a  secretary,  and  assistant  at  the  desk,  a  ser- 
geant-at-arms,  a  minute  clerk,  a  journal  clerk,  a  history  clerk, 
a  chaplain,  and  a  postmaster. 

S.  B.  629.  Hans.  Adding  Section  232a  (new)  to  the  Political 
Code,  providing  for  the  compensation  of  grand  jurors  and  trial 
jurors  in  the  Superior  Court  in  counties  of  the  third  class. 

S.  B.  621.  Slater.  Adding  Section  245a  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal Code,  relating  to  the  employees  of  the  Senate. 

Provides  that  the  employees  of  the  Senate  shall  consist  of 
three  assistant  secretaries,  one  assistant  sergeant-at-arms, 
one  assistant  sergeant-at-arms  for  the  finance  committee,  one 
assistant  sergeant-at-arms  for  the  judiciary  committee,  one 
assistant  sergeant-at-arms  to  be  assigned  by  the  sergeant-at- 
arms  to  any  committee  requiring  the  same,  one  bookkeeper  for 
the  sergeant-at-arms,  three  assistant  minute  clerks,  two  as- 
sistant journal  clerks,  one  engrossing  and  enrolling  clerk,  five 
assistant  engrossing  and  enrolling  clerks,  one  assistant  history 
clerk,  two  mail  carriers  (who  shall  be  mailing  and  folding 
clerks),  five  pages,  one  clerk-room  clerk,  one  stenographer  for 
the  finance  committee,  one  stenographer  for  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee, thirty-four  stenographers  who  shall  also  serve  as  com- 
mittee clerks,  two  press  mailing  clerks,  all  of  whom  shall  be 
under  the  direction  and  supervision  of  the  secretary,  and  such 
other  employees  as  the  Senate,  by  a  three-fifths  vote  of  all 
members,   shall  deem   necessary. 

S.  B.  625.  Slater.  Amending  Section  246,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  officers  of  the  Assembly. 

Provides  that  officers  of  Assembly  shall  be  a  Speaker, 
Speaker  pro  tern.,  chief  clerk,  sergeant-at-arms,  minute  clerk, 
history  clerk,  journal  clerk,  engrossing  and  enrolling  clerk,  a 
chaplain,    and   a    postmaster. 


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S.  B.  624.  Slater.  Amending  Section  247,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  election  of  officers  of  the  Legislature. 

Provides  that  all  officers,  except  president  of  Senate,  must 
be   elected   by   the   house   to  which   such   officers   are   attached. 

S.  B.  620.  Slater.  Adding  Section  247a  (new)  -  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  appointment  of  the  employees 
of  the  Legislature. 

Provides  that  employees  of  the  Legislature  shall  be  selected 
and  appointed  by  the  State  Civil  Service  Commission. 

S.  B.  622.  Slater.  Adding  Section  247a  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal Code,  relating  to  the  employees  of  the  Assembly. 

Provides  that  the  employees  of  the  Assembly  shall  consist 
of  four  assistant  clerks,  one  assistant  sergeant-at-arms,  one 
bookkeeper  to  the  sergeant-at-arms,  two  assistant  minute 
clerks,  one  assistant  journal  clerk,  four  assistant  engrossing 
and  enrolling  clerks,  one  mail  carrier  (who  shall  be  mailing 
and  folding  clerk),  seven  pages,  forty  committee  clerks,  twenty 
of  whom  shall  be  stenographers,  one  sergeant-at-arms  for  the 
ways  and  means  committee,  one  sergeant-at-arms  for  the 
judiciary  committee,  all  of  whom  shall  be  under  the  direction 
and  supervision  of  the  chief  clerk,  and  such  other  employees  as 
the  assembly,  by  a  three-fifths  vote  of  all  members,  shall  deem 
necessary. 

A.  B.  255.  Kennedy.  Amending  Section  266,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the   compensation  of  members  of  the   legislature. 

Provides  that  mileage  shall  be  computed  according  to  the 
most  direct  route. 

A.  B.  246.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  266,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  per  diem  and  mileage  of  members  of  the 
legislature. 

S.  B.  1140.  Breed.  Amending  Section  268,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  other  officers  and  employees, 
salaries  of  officers  and  attaches  of  the  Senate  and  Assembly. 

S.  B.  431.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  368,  Political  Code, 
and  repealing  Section  369  thereof,  relating  to  executive  officers, 
their  appointment  and  terms. 

S.  B.  430.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  386,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salary  of  the  executive  secretary  of  the  Gov- 
ernor by  increasing  compensation  to  $3600. 

S.  B.  640.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  408,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  duties  of  Secretary  of  State. 

S.  B.  797.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  410,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  distribution  of  the  laws,  resolutions  and  journals 
of  legislature;  of  reports  of  Supreme  Court. 

A.  B.  885.     McDonald,  W.  A.     Identical  with  S.  B.  797.  Gerdes. 

S.  B.  1200.  Mott.  Amending  Sections  412  and  413,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  duties  and  salaries  of  the  Secretary  of 
State  and  his  appointees  and  their  duties  and  salaries. 


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A.   B.   1380.     Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.   B.   1200.     Molt. 

A.  B.  17.  Rutherford.  Amending  Section  443  of  the  Political 
Code  of  the  State  of  California,  relating  to  the  State  school 
fund. 

A.  B.  139.  Manning.  Amending  Section  443,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the   controller's   estimate   of  school   tax. 

S.  B.  689.  Butler.  Amending  Section  443,  Political  Code, 
in  regard  to  the  State  School  Fund. 

A.  B.  1249.  McKnight  (by  request).  Amending  Section  443, 
Political  Code,   in  regard   to   the   State   School  Fund. 

S.  B.  108.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  445,  Political  Code, 
authorizing  the  Controller  of  State  to  maintain  an  inheritance 
tax  department  and  in  connection  therewith  to  appoint  an 
inheritance  tax  attorney  and  assistants  thereto,  and  repealing 
Section   445,    Political   Code,   as   amended   June   16,    1913. 

S.  B.  1053.  Breed.  Amending  Section  456,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  employees  in  the  office  of  the  State  Treasurer. 

S.  B.  1054.  Breed.  Repealing  Section  460,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  porter  for  State  Treasurer. 

S.  B.  724.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  470,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  duties  of  the  Attorney-General. 

A.  B.  856.  Prendergast.  Adding  S'ection  470a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  legal  assistance  of  the  Attorney- 
General  in  actions  involving  the  validity  of  patents  covering 
processes,   devices  or  materials  used  in   highway  construction. 

S.  B.  557.  Scott  (by  request).  Amending  Section  472, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  appointees  of  the  Attorney- 
General  and  his  duties. 

A.  B.  1469.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  472,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  appointees  of  the  Attorney-General  and 
his  duties. 

S.  B.  654.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  475,  Political  Code, 
providing  for  the  appointment  by  the  Attorney-General  of 
clerks,  phonographic  reporter,  service  agent  and  stenographers, 
and   fixing  their   salaries. 

A.  B.   710.     Meek.     Identical    with    S.    B.    654.      Thompson. 

S.  B.  641.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  526,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  general  duties  of  the  Superintendent  of  State 
Printing. 

S.  B.  966.  Finn.  Amending  Section  531,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  duties  of  the  Superintendent  of  State  Printing. 

A.    B.    1187.     Harris.      Identical   with   S.    B.   966.     Finn. 

S.  B.  1076.  Beban.  Amending  Section  535,  Political  Code, 
authorizing  State  printer,  on  approval  by  Board  of  Control, 
to  purchase   equipment   for   State   printing   plant. 

A.  B.  104.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Sections  548,  549,  550,  551, 
552,  553,  554,  and  555  (new)  to  the  Political  Code,  under  a  new 
article   to  be   numbered   thirteen    (13),   to  be   added   to   Chapter 


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III,  Title  I,  Part  III  thereof,  relating  to  the  employment  of 
legislative  counsel  and  agents,  prescribing  and  authorizing 
certain  regulations  governing  said  employment,  and  requiring 
statements  of  expenses  incurred  in  connection  with  said  em- 
ployment   to   be   filed   with    the    Secretary   of    State. 

A.  B.  858.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  591,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  expenses  and  funds  of  the  Insurance 
Commissioner. 

S.  B.   901.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.   B.  858.     Prendergast. 

S.  B.  650.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  594,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  classification  of  insurance  business  and  to  the 
capital  stock  of  insurance  companies. 

A.  B.  862.  Prendergast.  Adding  Section  594b  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  imposing  a  penalty  upon  insurance  companies 
soliciting  or  writing  insurance  in  states  where  not  regu- 
larly licensed. 

S.  B.  1055.  Breed.  Adding  Section  594b  (new)  to  the  Polit- 
ical Code,  relating  to  the  soliciting  and  writing  of  insurance. 

Similar  to  A.  B.  862,  Prendergast,  with  the  additional  pro- 
vision that  on  and  after  April  1,  1917,  no  company  from  any 
other  State  shall  be  licensed  in  this  State  whose  home  State 
does  not  prohibit  or  prevent  the  soliciting  and  writing  of  in- 
surance by  all  companies  of  that  State  in  States  or  territories 
in  which  they  are  not  licensed  in  accordance  with  laws  there- 
of; certificate  from  insurance  commissioner  or  supervising 
officer  of  any  other  State  to  that  effect  shall  be  sufficient 
compliance  with   this  Act. 

A.  B.  859.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  596,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  insurance  business  by  authorized  and  un- 
authorized companies  and  prescribing  penalties  for  violation 
thereof  and   declaring   certain   policies   of   insurance  void. 

S.  B.   900.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.   B.   859.     Prendergast. 

A.  B.  1481.  Kennedy.  Adding  Section  597a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  examination  of  insurance  com- 
panies by  the  insurance   commissioner. 

S.  B.  420.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  602b  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  to  provide  a  uniform  system  of  classification  of 
risks,  premium  rates  and  schedule  ratings  (on  merit  ratings 
so-called)  for  the  State  Compensation  Insurance  Fund  and  all 
other  insurance  carriers  in  this  State  insuring  employers  or 
employees  under  the  Workmen's  Compensation,  Insurance  and 
Safety  Act,  Chapter  176,  Laws  1913;  to  establish  adequate  rates 
for  such  insurance;  to  permit  the  limited  issuance  of  compensa- 
tion participating  policies;  requiring  the  Industrial  Accident 
Commission  to  furnish  certain  information  for  the  use  of  the 
State  Insurance  Commissioner;  requiring  every  insurance  car- 
rier writing  such  insurance  to  file  an  annual  report  of  its  loss 


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experience,  and  empowering  the  State  Insurance  Commissioner 
to  supervise,   control  and  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Places  the  State  Insurance  Fund  under  the  supervision  of 
the  State  Insurance  Commissioner. 

S.  B.  891.  Breed.  Amending  Section  605,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  fees  for  the  filing  of  insurance  documents. 

A.  B.  861.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  589,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  annual  salary  of  the  Insurance  Commis- 
sioner and   Deputy  Insurance   Commissioner. 

S.   B.  902.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.  B.   861.     Prendergast. 

A.   B.   977.     Prendergast.     Identical  with   S.   B.   891.     Breed. 

A.  B.  1204.  Prendergast  (by  request).  Amending  Section 
605,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  fees  of  the  Insurance  De- 
partment. , 

S.  B.  1034.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  605,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the   fees   of  the   insurance  department. 

A.  B.  863.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  611,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  filing  of  statements. 

S.  B.  1027.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  611,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  filing  of  statements  with  the  Insurance  Com- 
missioner. 

S.  B.  158.  Beban.  Adding  Section  620b  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal Code,  relating  to  the  withdrawal  of  deposit  of  securities 
by  insurance  companies. 

Provides  that  securities  deposited  by  an  insurance  company 
created  under  the  laws  of  this  State  to  enable  it  to  do  busi- 
ness in  another  state  may  be  withdrawn  whenever  such  com- 
pany ceases  to  do  business  in  such  other  state  and  conclusive 
evidence  is  filed  that  all  policies  written  in  such  other  state 
have   expired  or  been  paid,   cancelled  or  re-insured. 

A.  B.  1203.  Prendergast  (by  request).  Amending  Section 
623,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  bonds  of  insurance  com- 
panies. 

S.  B.  1037.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  623,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the   bonds   of   insurance   companies. 

A.  B.  857.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  629,  Political 
Code,  relatiing  to  the  method  to  be  used  in  the  valuation  of 
life  insurance  reserves. 

S.  B.  1056.  Breed.  Amending  Section  629,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  method  to  be  used  in  the  valuation  of  life 
insurance   reserves. 

S.  B.  572.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  633,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  licensing  of  insurance  agents. 

A.   B.   1176.     Anderson.     Identical  with   S.   B.   572.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  864.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  633,  Political 
Code,  so  as  to  concern  only  the  licensing  of  insurance  and 
surety  agents;  providing  for  the  revoking  of  such  licenses  and 
providing  a   penalty  for  a  violation   thereof. 


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S.  B.  573.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  633a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  licensing  of  fire  insurance 
brokers. 

Provides  for  the  issuance,  for  a  fee  of  $10,  of  a  license  to 
fire   insurance   brokers. 

A.   B.    1174.     Anderson.     Identical  with  S.   B.   573.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  866.  Prendergast.  Adding  Section  633a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  concerning  the  licensing  of  insurance  brokers, 
and  providing  for  the  issuance  and  revoking  of  licenses  by 
the  Insurance  Commissioner. 

A.  B.  538.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  634,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  registration  of  policies  of  life  insurance  com- 
panies. 

S.  B.  501.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  634,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  registration  of  policies  of  life  insurance  companies. 

A.'  B.  1205.  Prendergast  (by  request).  Identical  with  S".  B. 
501.      Benedict. 

S.  B.  1035.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  634,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  registration  of  policies  of  life  insurance  com- 
panies. 

A.  B.  554.  Schmitt.  Adding  Section  635  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  a  standard  form  of  life  insurance 
policy. 

Requires  a  standard  form  of  policy  for  life  and  endowment 
insurance,  to  contain  provisions:  that  insured  is  entitled  to  a 
grace  of  either  30  days  or  one  month  to  pay  premium  with 
interest,  at  company's  option,  not  to  exceed  6  per  cent;  that 
policy  shall  be  incontestable  after  two  years  except  for  non- 
payment of  premiums  or  violations  of  conditions  concerning 
military  or  naval  service  in  time  of  war;  that  the  policy  shall 
constitute  the  entire  contract  between  the  parties,  except  that 
the  company  may  make  the  application  a  part  of  the  contract, 
in  which  event  it  shall  be  attached  to  the  policy;  that  if  the 
age  of  the  insured  has  been  misstated,  the  amount  payable 
shall  be  such  as  the  premium  would  have  purchased  at  the 
correct  age;  that  the  policy  shall  participate  in  the  surplus 
of  the  company  annually;  specifying  the  options  to  which  the 
policyholder  is  entitled  in  event  of  default  in  premium  pay- 
ment after  three  full  annual  premiums  have  been  paid;  that 
after  three  full  years'  premiums  have  been  paid  the  company 
will  advance  on  security  of  the  policy  at  a  specified  rate  of 
interest  a  sum  equal  to  the  reserve  at  the  end  of  the  current 
policy  year  on  the  policy  and  any  dividend  additions  thereto, 
less  2y2  per  cent,  and  will  deduct  from  such  loan  value  any 
existing  indebtedness  on  the  policy  and  any  unpaid  balance 
of  premiums  for  current  policy  year,  and  it  may  collect  in- 
terest in  advance  on  loan  to  end  of  current  policy  year;  a 
company  may  in  lieu  of  the  foregoing  insert  a   provision  that 


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one-fifth  of  the  entire  reserve  may  be  deducted  in  case  of  a 
loan  under  the  policy,  or  may  provide  that  the  deduction  may 
be  the  2^  per  cent  or  one-fifth  of  the  entire  reserve  at  option 
of  company;  a  table  showing  in  figures  the  loan  values  and 
options  available  each  year  upon  default  in  premium  pay- 
ments; if  proceeds  of  policy  are  payable  in  installments  or  as 
an  annuity,  a  table  showing  the  amounts  of  the  payments; 
that  the  holder  shall  be  entitled  to  have  the  policy  reinstated 
at  any  time  within  3  years  from  date  of  default  unless  cash 
value  has  been  paid,  or  extension  period  expired,  on  produc- 
tion of  satisfactory  evidence  of  insurability  and  payment  of 
all  overdue  premiums  with  interest  at  not  to  exceed  6  per 
cent;  any  of  foregoing  provisions  not  applicable  to  single 
premium  or  non-participation  or  term  policies  shall  not  be 
incorporated  therein,  and  any  such  policy  may  be  issued  or 
delivered  in  this  State,  that  in  opinion  of  Superintendent  of 
Insurance  contains  provisions  more  favorable  to  insured  than 
herein  required;  section  shall  not  apply  to  policies  of  rein- 
surance. 

A.  B.  1360.  Schmitt.  Adding  Section  635a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  a  standard  form  for  accident  and 
health  policies. 

S.  B.  1075.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  643,  Political  Code, 
providing  for  the  compensation  of  Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sioners. 

S.  B.  907.  Benedict.  Adding  Section  664a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  State 
Board   of   Control   as   regards   claims   against   the   State. 

A.  B.  427.-  Dennett.  Amending  Section  677,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  investment  of  money  in  the  estates  of  deceased  per- 
sons' fund. 

A.  B.  629.  Dennett.  Adding  Section  677a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  purchase  of  bonds  of  irrigation 
districts  by   the  Board   of  Control. 

Provides  that  when  Board  of  Control  has  funds  for  invest- 
ment in  bonds  or  securities  it  shall  be  duty  of  board  to  invest 
at  least  20  per  cent  thereof  in  bonds  of  irrigation  districts,  at 
par  or  less. 

A.  B.  425.  Dennett.  Repealing  Section  680,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  investment  of  school  funds. 

A.  B.  777.  Ashley.  Amending  Section  696,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  teachers  in  public  schools. 

S.  B.  1132.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  714,  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  relating  to  examination  of  judgment  debtors  on 
proceedings   supplementary  to   execution. 

Provides  that  judgment  debtor  must  not  be  required  to 
attend  before  judge  or  referee  out  of  county  in  which  judg- 
ment was  rendered. 


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B.  B.  1083.  Cohn.  Amending  Section  718,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  employees  of  the  superintendent  of  the  Capitol 
building  and  grounds,  prescribing  their  duties  and  fixing  their 
salaries  and  appropriating  money  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
out   the    provisions   hereof   not   otherwise   provided   for   by   law. 

S.  B.  718.  Slater.  Amending  Section  737,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the  salary   of   Superior  Judges. 

S.  B.  186.  Benson.  Amending  Section  7511/2,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  appointment  and  salary  of  stenographer  of  the 
clerk   of   the   Supreme   Court. 

Increases   salary  from   $1000   to   $1500   per  annum. 

S.  B.  132.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  756,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  of  deputy  clerks  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

Increases  salary  of  chief  deputy  to  $2700,  and  of  other 
deputies  to  $2100. 

A.  B.  626.  Mouser.  Adding  Section  762  (new)  to  the  Po- 
litical Code  relating  to  the  libraries,  furniture  and  library 
funds  of  the  District  Courts  of  Appeal  and  incidental  expenses 
of    such   courts. 

Authorizes  judges  to  sell  books,  furniture  or  furnishings  to 
the  court  when  in  their  discreation  it  seems  advisable,  or  to 
exchange  books  for  other  books  deemed  more  suitable  for  use 
of  court.  Proceeds  of  sales  to  be  paid  into  State  Treasury  to 
credit  of  library  fund  of  court;  incidental  expenses  not  other- 
wise provided  for  may  be  paid  from  library  fund. 

A.  B.  778.  Ashley.  Amending  Section  768,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  composition,  qualifications,  term  of  office  and 
organization  of  members  of  county  boards  of  education. 

S.  B.  219.  Scott.  Amending  Section  791,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   notaries   public. 

Increases  the  number  of  notaries  in  San  Francisco  from  110 
to   120. 

A.    B.    223.      Prendergast.     Identical   with   S.    B.    219.      Scott. 

A.  B.  997.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  791,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   notaries   public. 

Provides  for  appointment  by  Governor  of  such  number  of 
notaries  in  several  counties  and  cities  and  counties  of  State  as 
he  shall  deem  necessary  for  public  convenience;  provided,  that 
there  shall  be  not  more  than  one  notary  appointed  for  every 
500   inhabitants  of  such   counties  and   cities   and   counties. 

A.    B.    55.      Ferguson.      Amending   Section    792,    Political    Code. 

ating   to  qualification   and   application   to   become   notaries. 

Requires  application  for  appointment  to  state  that  applicant 
is  citizen  and  twenty-one  years  of  age;  has  resided  in  county 
at  least  one  year  prior  to  date  of  application;  application 
must  be  signed  by  at  least  five  residents  of  county,  and  where 
applicant  is  not  an  attorney,  admitted  to  practice  in  this 
State,    by    a   judge    of    the    Superor    Court    of    the    county    and 


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accompanied  by  a  certificate  from  said  judge  that  he  has 
examined  applicant  touching  qualifications  and  is  satisfied  that 
he    has    sufficient    educational    qualifications    to   act   as    notary. 

A.  B.  914.  Canepa.  Amending  Section  798,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  notaries   public,   and   fixing  a  scale   of  fees. 

Adds  "For  every  demand  for  payment  of  a  promissory  note, 
or  for  payment  or  acceptance  of  a  bill  of  exchange,  draft  or 
check,   where  same  is  paid  or  accepted  upon  such  dmand,   $2. 

S.  B.  304.  Beban.  Amending  Section  799,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  official  bonds  of  persons  authorized  to  administer 
oaths. 

Requires  notaries  and  all  other  persons  before  whom  proof 
or  acknowledgment  of  an  instrument  may  be  made,  except 
an  executive  officer,  or  judge  or  clerk  of  any  court,  to  execute 
a  bond  in   $5000. 

A.  B.  56.  Ferguson.  Adding  Section  802  (new)  to  the 
Political    Code,    relating    to   official   misconduct   of   notaries. 

Declares  it  to  be  official  misconduct  for  a  notary  public 
to  charge  fees  in  excess  or  less  than  the  amount  specified 
in    Section    798,    Political    Code. 

A.  B.  668.  Browne.  Amending  Section  843,  Political  Code, 
prohibiting  a  county  officer  acting  as  a  deputy  of  another 
county  officer  of  the  same  county,  except  where  the  salary  is 
less   than    $150   a   month. 

S.   B.   095.     King.     Identical  with  A.   B.  668.     Browne. 

S.  B.  541.  Cogswell.  Repealing  Section  924,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  duties  of  auditing  officers. 

A.  B.  704.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  1032,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   records  open  for  inspection. 

Declares  "all  records,  books,  pleadings,  judgments  or  decrees 
in  the  office  of  any  State,  county,  city  and  county,  city  or 
township  officer"  except  papers  on  attachment,  shall  "at  all 
times"  be  open  to  inspection. 

A.  B'.  580.  McPherson.  Amending  Section  1055,  Political 
Code,    relating   te>    publication    of    election    proclamations. 

S.  B.  847.  Slater.  Amending  Section  1055,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   publication  of   election   proclamations. 

A.  B.  28.  Mouser.  Amending  Section  1072,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  compensation  for  members  of  boards  of  election 
and    clerks    thereof. 

Changes  basis  of  compensation  to  $3  for  each  eight  hours 
board  shall  be  in  session,  with  provision  that  compensation 
shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  $8  nor  more  than  $16;  com- 
pensation to  be  as  nearly  as  possible  in  proportion  to  number 
of   votes   cast. 

A.  B.  1005.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Sections  1073,  1079, 
1083a,  1094,  1096,  1113,  1115,  1120,  1121,  1127,  1128,  1129,  1130, 
1133,    1192,    1285,    1286,    1287,    1288,    1290,    1294   and    4025,    Political 


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Code,  repealing  Sections  1334,  1335,  1344,  1345,  1359,  1361a  and 
1366a  thereof,  and  adding  thereto  Section  1083b  (new),  all  re- 
lating to  furnishing  printed  blanks,  poll  lists,  tally  lists,  etc., 
for  election  purposes. 

S.  B.  1112.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1005.     Wright. 

S.  B.  355.  Jones.  Amending  Section  1083,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  right  to  vote  and  the  registration  of  voters. 

A.  B.  1284.  Encell.  Amending  Section  1083,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  right  to  vote  and  the  registration  of  voters. 

A.  B.  1090.  Ellis.  Amending  Section  1083a,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    qualifications    of    signing    petitions. 

A.  B.  1195.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  1083a,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  qualification  of  signers  of  initiative,  refer- 
endum, recall  or  nominating  petitions. 

A.  B.  1288.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  1083a,  political  Code, 
relating  to  the  signing  by  qualified  electors  of  petitions  and 
papers,  and  to  the  duties  of  county  clerks  and  registrars  of 
voters  respecting  same. 

A.  B.  1198.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  1094,  Political 
Code,   relating   to   the   registration  of  voters. 

A.  B.  1421.  Harris.  Amending  Section  1094,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  registration  of  voters. 

A.  B.  1425.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  1096,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  1197.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Sections  1096,  1097  and 
1097a,  Political  Code,  relating  to  affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  1424.  Kramer.  Amending  Section  1097,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  registration  of  electors. 

A.  B.  1287.  Satterwhite.  Repealing  Sections  1102,  1143, 
1185,  1286,  1287,  1359,  1361a,  1366a  and  4026,  Political  Code,  all 
relating  to  elections. 

A.  B.  1423.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  1103,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  preservation  and  distribution  by  the 
County  Clerk  of  affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  1285.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  1104,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  registration  of  voters. 

A.  B.  1286.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  1105,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   the   cancellation   of   registrations. 

A.  B.  1290.  Conard.  Amending  Section  1113,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  binding  of  affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  1294.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Section  1115,  Political 
Code,   relating   to  affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  1295.  Edwards,  L.  Amending  Sections  1120  and  1121, 
Political  Code,  both  relating  to  qualifications  of  voters  and  the 
registers  to  be  used  at  certain  elections. 

A.  B.  553.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  1127,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  establishment  of  election  precincts  by 
the    Board   of    Supervisors. 


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Av  B.  661.  Spengler.  Amending  Section  1130,  Political. Code, 
relating-  to  limitation  upon  the  powers  of  Supervisors  in  estab- - 
lishing   election  precincts. 

Adds  provision  that  if  any  precinct  contains  insufficient 
number  of  qualified  electors  to  make  up  precinct  board,  such 
precinct  may  be  consolidated  with  an  adjoining  election  pre- 
cinct. 

A.  B.  801.  Encell.  Amending  Section  1132,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  place  for  holding  an  election. 

A.  B.  511.  McKnight.  Amending  Section  1142,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   boards   of   election,    their   appointment,    duties,    etc. 

A.  B.  804.  Encell.  Amending  Section  1142,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  appointment  of  election  boards. 

S.  B.  1126.  Kehoe.  •  Amending  Section  1142,  Political  Code, 
requiring  boards  of  supervisors  to  appoint  election  officers  from 
an  eligible  list  of  persons  who  have  previously  passed  an  ex- 
amination as  to  their  fitness  and  competency. 

A.  B.  1416.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1126.     Kehoe. 

A.  B.  1296.  Ryan.  Amending  Section  1149,  Political .  Code, 
relating  to  posting  and  polling  places  of  copies  of  index  to 
affidavits  of  registration. 

A.  B.  802.  Encell.  Amending  Section  1151,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  board  of  elections  for  special  election  precincts — 
poll  lists,   etc. 

A.  B.  1292.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  1151,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   boards   of   elections    for   certain    elections. 

A.  B.  1291.  Kerr.  Amending  Sections  1188  and  1192,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  nomination  of  candidates  otherwise  than 
by  primary  election,  and  to  the  filing  of  nomination  papers. 

A.  B.  1293.  Kramer.  Adding  Section  1193  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  and  repealing  Section  1191  thereof,  both  relat- 
ing to  the  preservation  and  subsequent  destruction  of  nomina- 
tion papers. 

S.  B.  1089.  Chandler.  Adding  Section  1194  (new),  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  preservation  and  subsequent 
destruction  by  the  Secretary  of  State  of  initiative,  referendum 
and  recall  petitions. 

S.  B.  73.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  1195,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  proposed  constitutional  amendments,  initiative 
and  referendum  measures,  and  providing  for  the  mailing 
and  distribution  of  the  same,  together  with  arguments  for 
and    against   adoption. 

S,  B.  728.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  1195,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  preparation,  printing  and  distribution  of  state- 
ments concerning  proposed  constitutional  amendments,  and  to 
the  printing  and  distribution  of  such  constitutional  amend- 
ments. 

A.    B.    1467.      Fi&'h.      Amending    Section    1195,    Political    Code,- 


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relating  to  the  preparation  of  arguments  concerning  proposed' 
constitutional  amendments  and  propositions  to  be  submitted 
to  the  vote  of  the  elector. 

A.  B.  1422.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Sections  1195  and 
2195a  of  the  Political  Code  and  adding,  a  new  section  thereto 
to  be  designated  Section  1195b,  relating  to  the  preparation, 
printing  and  distribution  of  statements  concerning  proposed 
constitutional  amendments,  and  to  the  printing  and  distribu- 
tion of  such  constitutional  amendments  and  propositions, 
measures  and  questions  to  be  submitted  to  the  vote  of  the 
electors. 

A.  B.  1298.  Mouser.  Amending  Section  1196,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   providing  and   printing   ballots   for   elections. 

A.  B.  1456.  Young.  Amending  Section  1197,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  form  of  ballot?-1. 

S.  B.  22.  Slater.  Amending  Sections  1197,  1205  and  1211, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  election  ballots,  manner  of  voting 
and   the   conduct   of  elections. 

S.  B.  725.  Chandler.  Adding  Section  1197a  (new),  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  titles  and  summaries  for  initiative 
and  referendum  measures. 

Requires  proponents  of  initiative  measures  to  submit  draft 
of  their  petition  to  Attorney-General  with  request  that  he  pre- 
pare title  and  summary  of  chief  purposes  and  points  of  pro- 
posed measure,  such  title  and  summary  not  to  exceed  100 
words  in  all;  this  title  and  summary  shall  appear  on  each 
petition;  and  across  the  top  of  each  petition  shall  be  printed 
in  12-point  black-face  type  the  words  "referendum  measure 
against  an  Act  passed  by  the  Legislature".  And  across  each 
page  after  the  first  of  every  initiative,  referendum  or  recall 
petition  shall  be  printed  in  18-point  gothic  type  a  short  title 
not  to  exceed  twenty  words  showing  nature  and  subject  of 
petition;   petitions   not  so  printed  shall  be  null  and  void. 

A.  B.  1426.  Sisson.  Adding  Section  1203  (new)  to  the  Po- 
litical Code,  relating  to  supplies  for  election  booths  and  the 
duties  of  election  officers  with  respect   thereto. 

A.  B.  783.  Phelps.  Amending  Section  1210,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  sample  ballots. 

A.  B.  1297.  Johnson.  Amending  Section  1211,  Political  Code, 
relating    to   the    marking   of   election   ballots. 

A.  B.  1420.  Ryan.  Amending-  Section  1211,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the  marking  of  election  ballots. 

A.  B.  663.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  1212,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  right  of  employees  to  vote  at  any  general  or 
special   election   in   this   State. 

Requires  application  for  leave  of  absence  to  be  made  prior 
to  day  of  election,  and  permits  employer  to  specify  hours  dur- 
ing   which    employee    may    be    absent;     refusal   of   privilege    or 


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deduction  of  wages,  declared  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by 
fine  of  not  less  than  $10  or  more  than  $50. 

S.  B.  739.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  1212,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  right  of  employees  to  vote  at  any  general  or 
special  election  in  this  State. 

S.  B.  930.  Carr.  Amending  Section  1216,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  duties   of  Registrar  of  Voters. 

S.  B.  137.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1239,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  rules   for  determining  questions  of  residence. 

Adds  Subdivision  10  (new),  providing  that  person  whose 
name  appears  on  great  register  and  who  changes  his  residence 
from  one  precinct  to  another  in  a  city,  county  or  city  and 
county  within  30  days  prior  to  date  of  election  shall  not  be 
deemed  to  have  lost  his  residence  for  purpose  of  voting  in 
precinct  from  which  he  removed. 

S.  B.  354.  Jones.  Amending  Section  1239,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  rules  for  determining  place  of  residence  of  electors. 

A.  B.  1289.  Harris.  Amending  Section  1244,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  certificates  of  election. 

A.  B.  1007.  Wright.  T.  M.  Amending  Section  1282,  Political 
Code,  by  adding  thereto  a  new  paragraph  to  be  numbered  6, 
relating  to  the  disregarding  of  votes,  etc. 

S.  B.  1115.  Flint.  Amending  Section  1282,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  statement  and  record  of  votes  cast  at  elections. 

S.  B.  346.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1431  of  the  Political 
Code,  to  provide  for  payment  of  the  traveling  expenses  of  the 
regents  of  the  University  of  California. 

A.  B.  365.  McPherson.  Amending  Section  1431,  Political 
Code,  to  provide  for  payment  of  the  traveling  expenses  of  the 
regents   of  the  University   of  California. 

S.  B.  448.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  1489,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  normal  school  boards. 

S.  B.  449.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  1494,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   qualifications   for   admission   to   normal   schools. 

S.  B.  447.  "Chandler.  Amending  Sections  1518  and  1519, 
Political  Code,  adding  a  new  section  thereto  to  be  numbered 
]518a,  all  relating  to  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  pre- 
scribing its  powers  and  duties;  and  repealing  Section  1492  of 
the  Political  Code. 

S.  B.  885.  Breed.  Amending  Sections  1518  and  1519  of  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  organization  of  the  State  Board 
of  Education  and  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  State  Board 
of   Education. 

S.  B.  767.  Scott.  Amending  Section  1519,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   certification  of  teachers   in   special   subjects. 

A  B.   848.     Scott,   P.   C.     Identical  with   S.   B.   767.     Scott. 

S.    B.    1130.      Anderson.      Adding   Section    1519a    (new)    to    the 


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Political  Code,  relating  to  the  furnishing  of  free  text  books  to 
State  institutions. 

A.  B.  1395.  Wills.  Adding  Section  1519a  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal Code,  relating  to  the  furnishing  of  free  text-books  to  State 
institutions. 

A.  B.  1319.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1532,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  general  duties  of  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction. 

S.  B.  424.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1543,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  duties  of  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

A.  B.  731.  Wright.  Amending  Section  1543,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the   duties   of  the   Superintendent   of   Schools. 

A.  B.  1318.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1543,  Political  Code, 
relating   to  duties   of  County   Superintendent. 

A.  B.  132.  Manning.  Adding  Section  1543b  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  superintendents  of  schools  passing 
and  auditing  claims  of  any  school  district  in  excess  of  the 
funds   to   its   credit. 

S.  B.  422.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1544,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  annual  report  of  the  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

Provides  that  the  Auditor  instead  of  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors shall  deduct  the  $100  forfeiture  from  salary  of  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  for  failure  to  make  annual  report. 

A.  B.  134.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1576a,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  appointment  of  clerk  of  school  districts, 
prescribing   his    term    of   office    and    affixing   his    compensation. 

A.  B.  1317.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1577,  Political  Code, 
relating    to   formation    of    new   school    districts. 

A.  B.  212.  Avey.  Amending  Section  1581,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the  opening  of  school  in   new   school  districts. 

A.  B.  664.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  1584,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  control  and  government  of  school  districts,  a 
portion  of  which  is  embraced  within  the  limits  of  an  incor- 
porated city  or  town  governed  by  a  charter  proposed  and 
adopted  as  provided  by  Section  8  of  Article  XI  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  State  of  California,  by  providing  for  the  elec- 
tion under  said  charters  of  the  trustees  of  such  school  dis- 
tricts without   further   control   and   government. 

A.  B.  665.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  1593,  Political  Code, 
providing  for  the  time  and  place  of  electing  school  trustees, 
the  number  and  qualification  thereof,  the  filling  of  vacancies 
therein,  and  to  provide  for  such  election  under  charters  of 
cities  or  towns  having  a  charter  proposed  and  adopted  as 
provided  by  Section  8  of  Article  XI  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
State  of  California. 

S.  B.  696.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1593,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  election  of  school  trustees. 


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A.  B.  1227.  Fish.  Amending  Section  1593,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the   election  of  school  trustees. 

A.  B.  775.  Ashley.  Amending  Section  1595,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  calling  of  an  election  of  trustees. 

A.  B.  1002.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  1599,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  election  of  school  trustees,  and  defining  the 
duties  of  the  County  Clerk  in  relation  to  such  election. 

A.  B.  657.  Downing.  Amending  Section  1615,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   formation   of   new   districts  and   joint   districts. 

A.  B.  658.  Downing.  Amending  Section  1616,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    time    term    of    hoards   of    education    begins. 

S.  B.  103.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  city  boards  of  edu- 
cation and   boards  of  school  trustees. 

S.  B.  1016.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  Lo  the  powers  and  duties  of  City  hoards  of  education 
and    boards    of   school    trustees. 

S.  B.  1199.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  boards  of  school  trustees 
and    city   boards  of  education. 

A.  B.  140.  Manning.  Adding  Subdivision  6a  (new)  to  Sec- 
tion 1617,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  uniting  of  one  or 
more  school  districts,  for  the  purpose  of  employing  a  super- 
vising principal,  or  local  or  city  superintendent  and  to  pro- 
vide   for    his    compensation. 

A.  B.  13$.  Manning.  Amending  Subdivision  7  of  Section 
1617.  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of 
trustees  of  common  school  districts  and  hoards  of  education 
in  city  school  districts,  to  employ  a  principal,  a  supervising 
principal  or  city  superintendent  of  schools,  and  to  fix  their 
compensation   and    prescribe    their   term   of   office. 

A.  B.  135.  Manning.  Amending  Subdivision  22  of  Section 
1617,  Political  Code,  relating  to  transportation  of  children 
by   school   districts. 

A.  B.  385.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  boards  of  school  trustees 
and  city  boards  of  education. 

S.  B.  462.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  trustees  of  common  school 
districts  and   of  boards  of  education   in  city  school  districts. 

A.  B.  730.  Wright.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  purchase  of  staple  apparatus  and  supplies  by 
trustees    of    common    school    districts. 

A.  B.  756.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
defining  the  powers  and  duties  of  boards  of  school  trustees  and 
city  boards  of  education. 

A.    B.    776.     Ashley.      Amending   Section   1617,    Political    Code, 


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relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  trustees  in  common  school 
districts,  and  of  boards  of  education  in  city  school  districts. 

S.  B.  809.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1617,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  kindergartens. 

S.  B.  427.  Thompson.  Adding  Section  1617b  (new)  to  the 
Political   Code,    relating   to    the   employment   of   home   teachers. 

A.  B.  1228.  Fish.  Amending  Section  1617c,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    kindergartens. 

S.  B.  691.  Butler.  Adding  Section  1618a  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal Code,  providing  for  the  establishment  of  separate  schools 
for  the  instruction  of  the  feeble-minded. 

A.  B.  1235.  Wishard  (by  request).  Adding  Section  1618a 
(new)  to  the  Political  Code,  providing  for  the  establishment 
of  separate  schools  for  the   instruction   of  the  feeble-minded. 

S.  B.  736.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  1619,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  rights  and  privileges  in  school  districts. 

S.  B.  933.  Carr  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1619  of  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  maintenance  of  public  schools 
with   equal   rights   and   privileges. 

A.  B.  1237.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1619, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  maintenance  of  public  schools 
with  equal  rights  and  privileges. 

S.  B.  215.  Slater.  Amending  Section  1620,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  school  supplies  and   libraries. 

S.  B.  216.  Slater.  Adding  Section  1620a  (new)  to  the  Politi- 
cal   Code,    relating    to    county    library    compensation. 

A.  B.  133.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1622,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   how    the   county   school   money   may   be   used. 

S.  B.  630.  Hans.  Amending  Section  1622a,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  teachers'  salaries  and  fixing  a  minimum  amount  to 
be  paid. 

S,  B.  849.  Strobridge.  Amending  Section  1645,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  subjects  in  which  instruction  shall  be 
provided  in  the  elementary  schools  of  the  State. 

S.  B.  841.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1649,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  election  of  clerks  of  school  districts,  and 
providing   for   the   salaries   thereof. 

A.  B.  1316.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1663,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  classification   of  schools  and   teachers. 

S.  B.  392.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  1667,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  instruction  in  manners  and  morals. 

Requires  same  tests  upon  nature  of  alcohol  and  other  nar- 
cotics and  their  effects  upon  human  system  for  promotion  and 
graduation  as  in  other  subjects;  and  provides  for  instruction 
in  normal  schools  in  teaching  this  subject  and  requires  that 
it  be  included  in  all  examinations  for  teachers'  certificates. 

S.    Eta  -39.      Beban.  .    Amending    Section    1668;    Political    Cod-e, 


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so  as   to  require  physical  culture  and   health  and  development 
supervision   in   the  public   schools. 

A.  B.  430.  Rominger.  Amending  Section  1672,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  school  studies. 

S.  B.  844.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1673,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  school  hours  of  elementary  and  secondary 
schools  of   the   State   of   California. 

A.  B.  214.  Avey.  Amending  Section  1674,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  union  school  districts. 

S.  B.  694.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1674,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  formation  of  union  school  districts. 

A.  B.  1239.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1674, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  formation  of  union  school  dis- 
tricts. 

S.  B.  822.  S'tuckenbruck.  Amending  the  Political  Code  by 
adding  thereto  a  new  article,  to  be  designated  and  numbered 
Article  Xa,  of  Chapter  III,  of  Title  III  of  Part  III  of  said 
Code,    relating    to    elementary   and    secondary    schools. 

S.  B.  842.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1685,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  causes  for  the  suspension  or  expulsion  of 
school    children. 

A.  B.  991.  Burke.  Amending  Section  1685,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  causes  for  suspension  or  expulsion  of  school 
children. 

S.  B.  352.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  1687,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   qualifications   of  teachers   for   beginners. 

A.  B.  510.  McKnight.  Amending  Section  1687,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   teachers    in    elementary   schools. 

S.  B.  763.  Brown.  Amending  Section  1687,  Political  Code, 
in   relation   to  teachers   in   elementary  schools. 

S.  B.  695.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  1696,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the   duties   of  teachers   in   public  schools. 

A.  B.  1251.  McKnight  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1696, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  duties  of  teachers  in  public 
schools. 

A.  B.  1312.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1704,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  eligibility   to  teach. 

S.  B.  217.  Slater.  Repealing  Sections  1712,  1713  and  1714, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  school  library  funds,  libraries  and 
use  of  such  libraries. 

A.  B.  560.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  1714,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  library  fund  in  cities,  or  cities  and  coun- 
ties,   not   divided   into   school   districts. 

S.   B.   766.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   560.     Prendergast. 
A.     B.     1233.'     Fish.     Amending    Section     1715,     Political    Code, 
relating  to   the  control  and  location  of  libraries. 

S.  B.  1129.     Brown.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1233.     Fish. 

A.  B.  1206.     Scott,  L.  D.   (by  request).     Adding  Section  1727a 


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(new)  to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  formation  and 
reorganization  of  County  High  School  Districts. 

S.  B.  587.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  1729,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  establishment  of  post-graduate  elementary  school 
courses. 

A.  B.  1213.  Avey.  Amending  Section  1729,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  manner  in  which  high  school  districts  may 
unite. 

S.  B.  423.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1730,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  boards  of  trustees  in  high   school  districts. 

S.  B.  764.  Brown.  Amending  Section  1730,  Political  Code, 
fixing  the  date  when  the  term  of  office  of  members  of  high 
school  boards  shall  expire. 

A.  B.  1238.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1730, 
Political  Code,  fixing  the  date  when  the  term  of  office  of  mem- 
bers of  high  school  boards   shall  expire. 

S.  B.  710.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  1731,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  election  or  appointment  of  high  school  boards. 

A.  B.  1236.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1731, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  election  or  appointment  of  mem- 
bers of  high  school  boards. 

A.  B.  345.  Wills.  Adding  Section  1739a  (new)  to  the  Polit- 
ical Code,  relating  to  the  reorganization  of  county  high  school 
districts. 

S.  B.  811.  Rush.  Amending  Section  1741,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  high  school  boards. 

A.  B.  1234.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  1741,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  high  school  boards. 

S.  B.  820.  Anderson.  Adding  Section  1743a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,   relating  to  reports  of  high  school  principals. 

S'.B.  531.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1750,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  adoption  of  course  of  study  and  textbooks  by  high 
school  boards. 

S.  B.  439.  Benedict.  Adding  Sections  1750a  and  1617d  (new) 
to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  establishment  of  inter- 
mediate school  courses  by  high  school  boards,  and  authorizing 
boards  of  school  trustees  and  boards  of  education  in  common 
school  districts  to  permit  pupils  of  certain  grades  to  attend 
such   intermediate   school   courses. 

A.  B.  1352.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  1751,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  admission  of  pupils  to  the  high  schools  of 
the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  444.  Arnerich.  Adding  Section  1752  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  conventions  of  high  school  principals. 

S.  B.  943.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  1756,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  estimate  of  tax  for  maintenance  of  high  school. 

S.    B.    819.     .Thompson.      Adding    Section    1764    (new)    to    the 


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Political   Code,   relating  to   the   County  High   School   fund,   and 
repealing    Sections    1758    and    1759    thereof. 

S.  B.  452.  Anderson.  Amending  Sections  1768  and  1770, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  nomination,  appointment  and 
organization  of  county  boards   of   education. 

A.  B.  1036.     Scott,  P.  C.  "identical  with  S.B.  452.     Anderson. 

A.  B.  1315.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1771,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   kinds   of   certificates. 

A.  B.  936.  Rominger.  Amending  Sections  1771,  1772  and 
1775,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the 
county  board  of  education. 

A.  B.  1314.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1772, 'Political 'Code, 
relating  to  grammar  school  certificates. 

A.  B.  332.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  1779,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  establishment  of  post-graduate  elementary 
school  courses. 

S".  B.  934.  Carr  (by  request).  Amending:  Section  1779,  Polit- 
ical Code,  relating' to  grammar -grade  post  graduate  courses 
of  study.  . 

"**  A.  B.  1240.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1779, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  grammar^  grade  post  grade  courses 
of  study. 

A.  B.  937.  Rominger.  Amending  Section  17.91,  Political/Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  city,  or  city  and  GOUhty, 
boards  of  examination. 

A.  B.  136.  Manning.  Amending  Subdivision  2  .  of .  section 
4817,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  duty  of  the  county  super- 
intendent of  schools  in  estimating  the  minimum  amount ;:  per 
teacher  and  the  amount  to  be  received  for  each  pupil  in 
average  daily  attendance  in  the- county,  or  city  and  county. 
.  A.  B.  384.  Manning.  Amending  Section  i817,."Politicar Code, 
relating  --to  the  estimates  of  school  funds  .  t>y  .  county  •super- 
intendents. 

A.   B.   1311.    .Shartel.     Amending  Section  1817,' Political  Code, 
relating  to    estimate    of  county"  school    fund. 
.      S.  B.  700.  "Brown.    Amending"  Sections  1817  and  1818,  Political 
:  Code,  relative  to  the  levying  of  taxes  for  school  purposes. 

S.    B.    1137.     Anderson.     Amending    Sections    1817    and'  1818, 
Political  Code/relating  to   the"  county  school   tax. 
.     A.  B.  1252.     McKnight  (by  request).    Amending' Sections  1817 
and   1818,"  Political   Code,   relative   to  the' "levying   of  taxes   for 
school  purposes. 

A.  B.  1394.  Wills.  Amending  Sections  1817  and  1818,"  Politi- 
cal  Code,    relating   to   the    cOurtty   school   tax. 

S.  B.  529.  "Thompson.    Amending""  Section  1818," Political* Code, 
relating  to  the  levy  of  county  or  city  and  county  school  tax. 
■ '  S.* "B."  709.     Cogswell.    -Amending  Section  l#37r  Poll  tlcar  Code, 
relating  to  the  "fixing  of  "tax "rates  for  School  districts. 


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A.  B.  124S.  McKnight  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1837, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  fixing  of  tax  rates  for  school 
-  districts. 

S.  B.  810.  Thompson  (by  request).  Adding  Section  1838 
(new),  to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties 
of  the  governing  boards  of  school  districts  in  levying  taxes 
for  building  purposes. 

A.  B.  1250.  McKnight  (by  request).  Adding  Section  183S 
(new)  to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties 
of  the  governing  boards  of  school  districts  in  levying  taxes 
for   building   purposes. 

A.  B..137.  Manning.  Amending  Section  1839,  Poltical  Code, 
relating. to  the  maximum  rate. of  taxes  to  be  levied  for  .build- 
ing  and    other   school    purposes. 

Fixes  maximum  rate  for  building  purposes  at  not  to. exceed 
10   cents   on   each   $100,   arid   for  other  purposes   at   50   cents. 

S.    B.   1021.     Anderson.     Identical  with  A.   B.   137.     Burke. 

S.  B.  690.  Butler.  Amending  Section  1839,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  district  tax  rates. 

A.  B.  1242.  Wishard  (by  request).  Amending  Section  1839, 
Political   Code,    relating   to   district    tax    rates. 

A.  B.  68.  Gelder.  Repealing  Section  1840,  Politcal  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  support  of  schools,  estimates  of  moneys  needed, 
levy  of  tax  and  funds,  and  for  what  purpose  available. 

A.  B.  659.  Downing.  Amending  Section  1840,  Political  .Code, 
relating  to  estimate  of  amount  of  money  in  excess  of  sum 
derived  from  State  and  county  funds  required  for  maintenance 
of   schools. 

S.    B.    1156.      Benedict.      Adding    Section    1840a    (new)    to    the 
Political  Code,   relating  to  the  levy  and  collection  of  taxes   to 
"constitute   a    building   and    equipment    fund    in    school   districts 
having"  a  population  of  more  than  two  hundred  thousand. 

A.  B.  1476.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1156.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  779.  Ashley.  Amending  Section  1858,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  apportionment  of  school  funds  by  county  or  city 
and    county   school   superintendents. 

■~S.  "B.  698.  Brown.  Amending  Section  1858,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  apportionment  of  school  money  by  the  county 
superintendent  of  schools'. 

S.    B.  "770.      Scott.      Amending    Section    1858,    Political    Code, 
•  relating    to    the   attendance    of   children    in    the    public    schools 
of  the  State. 

A.  B.  845.     Scott,  F.   C.     Identical  with  S\  B.   770.    .Scott. 

A.  B.  1253.  MCKnight  (by  request).  Amending  Section' 1858, 
Political  Code,  ■  relative  to  the  apportionment  Of  school  money 
by   the   Count)-   Superintendent   of   Schools. 

A.  "~B.  1310.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1S58,  "Political 
'Code,    relating  to  duties   of  County   Superintendent. 


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A.  B.  1313.  Shartel.  Adding  Section  1858a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,   relating  to  apprentice  teachers. 

S.  B.  101.  Carr.  Amending  Section  1885,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the  form   of  bonds  of  school  districts. 

A.  B.  1008.  Wright,  T  M.  Amending  Section  1897,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  county  clerks  and  assessors,  Section  1898,  Po- 
litical Code,  relating  to  liability  of  county  clerks  and  assessors; 
Section  1900,  Political  Code,  relating  to  delivery  of  military  roll 
to  Adjutant  General;  Section  1901,  Political  Code,  relating  to 
compensation  for  computing  military  roll. 

S.  B.  1113.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1008.     Wright. 

S.  B.  772.  Scott.  Amending  Sections  1925,  1927,  1928,  1928a, 
1928b,  1928d,  1929,  1930,  1931,  1934,  1951,  1954,  1957,  1963,  1985, 
2006,  2081,  1982,  2079,  2086,  2107,  1962,  1967,  1981,  1984,  20.80, 
2111,  2112,  of  the  Political  Code  of  the  State  of  California,  and 
adding  one  new  section  to  said  code,  to  be  known  as  Section 
1963a,  all  relating  to  the  organization,  equipment,  maintenance 
and  government  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

A.    B.    832.      Edwards.     Identical   with    S.    B.    772.    Scott. 

S.  B.  503.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  1963,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  National  Guard. 

S.  B.  305.  Beban.  Amending  Section  2141,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the    Powers   of   the   Lunacy   Commission. 

A.  B.  830.  Edwards.  Amending  Section  2141,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  power  of  the   State  Commission   in  Lunacy. 

S.  B.  1041.  Rush.  Amending  Section  2141,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  power  of  the  State  Commission  in  Lunacy, 
and  the  salaries  and  wages  of  officers  and  employees  of  State 
hospitals. 

A.  B.  671.  Kramer.  Amending  Sections  2152,  2154  and 
2156,  Political  Code,  and  to  add  a  new  section  thereto,  desig- 
nated Section  2153b,  all  relating  to  the  government  and  man- 
agement of  State  hospitals  for  the  insane,  feebleminded  and 
other  incompetent  persons,  and  to  the  care,  training  and  edu- 
cation of  insane,  feebleminded  and  other  incompetent  persons. 

S.  B.  1081.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Sections  2152,  2153,  2154  and 
2156,  Political  Code,  and  adding  a  new  section  thereto,  to  be 
numbered  Section  2153b,  all  relating  to  the  government  and 
management  of  State  Hospitals  for  the  Insane,  Feeble-minded, 
and  other  incompetent  persons,  and  to  the  care,  training  and 
education  of  insane,  feeble-minded,  and  other  incompetent 
persons. 

A.  B.  882.  Salisbury.  Amending  Section  2153,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    superintendents    of    State    hospitals. 

A.  B.  177.  Widenmann.  Amending  Sections  2153a  and  2161, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  government  and  management 
of  State  hospitals  for  the  insane  and  other  incompetent  persons. 


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A.  B.  1£62.  Satterwhite.  Amending  Section  2185c,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  commitment  of  inebriates,  drug  habitues 
and  sex  perverts  to  State  hospitals. 

A.  B.  176.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  2187,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  government  and  management  of  State 
hospitals  for  the  insane  and  other  incompetent  persons. 

S.  B.  1020.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  2187,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  transfers  in  State  hospitals,  and  adding  a  new 
section  thereto,  to  be  known  and  designated  as  Section  2181b, 
relating  to  the  disposition  of  moneys  belonging  to  insane 
persons. 

S.  B.  340.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  2175,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  expenses  incurred  in  determining  the  insanity 
of  a  person  and  securing  his  admission  into  a  State  hospital. 

Adds  a  provision  that  where  it  appears  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  judge  that  the  person  under  examination  is  only  tempo- 
rarily a  resident  of  the  county  or  city  and  county  from  whence 
he  is  committed,  and  that  his  actual  residence  is  elsewhere, 
the  court  may  order  the  expense  charged  upon  the  county  of 
which  such  person  is  an  actual  and  bona  fide  resident. 

S.  B.  314.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  2189,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  discharge  of  patients  from  State  hospitals. 

S.  B.  315.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  2192,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  commitment  of  incompetents  other  than  insane 
persons. 

A.  B.  335.  Young.  Amending  the  Political  Code  by  chang- 
ing the  headings  of  the  title  to  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part 
III  of  said  Political  Code;  also  by  changing  the  headings  of 
the  title  to  Article  I  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of 
said  Political  Code;  and  to  repeal  Section  2236  of  said  Political 
Code;  and  to  amend  Sections  2238,  2239  and  2240  of  said  Politi- 
cal Code;  and  to  repeal  Sections  2241  and  2242  of  said  Political 
Code;  and  to  amend  Section  2243  of  said  Political  Code;  and 
to  amend  said  Political  Code  by  changing  the  headings  of  the 
title  to  Article  II  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  amend  Sections  2254  and  2255  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  repeal  Section  2256  of  said  Political 
Code;  and  amend  said  Political  Code  by  changing  the  headings 
of  Article  III  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  amend  Sections  2267  and  2268  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  repeal  Section  2269  of  said  Political 
Code;  and  to  amend  said  Political  Code  by  changing  the  head- 
ings of  Article  IV  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  amend  Section  2280  of  said  Political 
Code;  and  to  repeal  Section  2281  of  said  Political  Code;  all 
relating  to  the   California   School  for  the  Deaf  and   Blind. 

S.  B.  497.  Breed.  To  amend  the  Political  Code  by  chang- 
ing the  headings  of  the  title  to  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part 


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Ill  of  said  Political  Code;  also  by  changing  the  headings  of 
the  title  to  Article  I  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of 
said  Political  Code;  and  to  repeal  Section  2236  of 
said  Political  Code;  and  to  Amend  Sections  2238,  2239  and  2240 
of  said  Political  Code;  and  to  repeal  Sections  2241  and  2242 
of  said  Political  Code;  and  to  amend  Section  2243  of  said 
Political  Code;  and  to  amend  said  Political  Code  by 
changing  the  headings,  of  the  title  to  Article  II  of 
Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said  Political  Code; 
and  to  amend  Sections  2254  and  2255  of  said  Political  Code; 
and  to  repeal  Section  2256  of  said  Political  Code;  and  to 
amend  said  Political  Code  by  changing  the  headings  of  Article 

III  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said  Political  Code; 
and  to  amend  Sections  2267  and  2268  of  said  Political  Code; 
and  to  repeal  Section  2269  of  said  Political  Code;  and  to 
amend  said  Political  Code  by  changing  the  headings  of  Article 

IV  of  Chapter  II  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  said  Political  Code; 
and  to  amend  Section  2280  of  said  Political  Code;  and  to 
repeal  Section  2281  of  said  Political  Code;  all  relating  to  the 
California  School  for   the  Deaf  and  the   Blind. 

A.  B.  788.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  2289, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  support  and  maintenance  of 
orphans,    half   orphans   and   abandoned   children. 

A.  B.  881.  Salisbury.  Amending  Section  2289,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  institutions  caring  for  minor  orphans,  half  orphans 
and  abandoned  children,  and  providing  for  placing  departments 
therein. 

S.  B.  1080.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  2289,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  support  and  maintenance  of  orphans,  half  or- 
phans and  abandoned  children. 

S.  B.  794.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  2302,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salary  of  the  State  Librarian,  increasing  it  to 
$5000    per    year. 

A.   B.   897.     Gebhart.     Identical  with   S.    B.   794.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  816.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  2319,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  State  Commissioner  of  Horticulture,  and  pre- 
.scribing  the  powers,  duties  and  compensation  of  said  State 
Commissioner  of  Horticulture  and  the  officers  and  employees 
appointed  by  said  Commissioner,  and  providing  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  additional  officers,  fixing  their  compensation  and  pre- 
scribing  their   duties. 

A.  B.  1211.  Avey.  Amending  Section  2319c,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  establishment  of  quarantine  against  infectious 
plant   diseases. 

A.  B.  1042.  Widenmann.  Amending  Sections  2322,-  2322b, 
2322c,  2322d  and  2322e,  Political  Code,  said  sections  relating  to 
orchards,  trees,  vines  or  plants  of  any  variety  infested  with 
diseases  or   scale   insects   of  any  kind  injurious   to   fruit,    fruit 


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trees,  vines  or  other  plants  or  vegetables,  or  noxious  weeds 
and  to  the  eradication  of  insect  pests  and  diseases,  and  to 
the  appointment  and  removal  of  a  County  Horticultural  Com- 
missioner in  the  several  counties  of  the  State,  prescribing  his 
duties  and  powers  and  fixing  his  compensation  and  term  of 
office,  also  providing  for  a  State  Board  of  Horticultural  Ex- 
aminers, prescribing  the  duties  of  said  board  and  providing 
for  examinations  to  be  taken  by  persons  desiring  to  qualify 
for  position  as  County  Horticultural  Commissioners;  providing 
for  the  dividing  of  the  several  counties  of  the  State  into  dis- 
tricts by  the  respective  County  Horticultural  Commissioners 
and  providing  for  the  appointment  of  deputy  commissioners, 
local  inspectors  and  quarantine  guardians,  prescribing  their 
duties   and   powers   and   fixing   their   compensation. 

S.  B.  584.  Flint.  Amending  Section  2466,  Political  Code,  and 
adding  Section  2466a  (new),  relating  to  rates  of  pilotage  at  San 
Francisco. 

A.  B.  938.  Pettis  (by  request).  Revising  and  amending 
Sections  2520,  2521,  2522,  2523,  2524.  2526,  2527,  2529,  2530,  2531, 
2532,  2533,  2535,  2536,  2539,  2540,  2542,  2545,  2547,  2552,  Political 
Code,  repealing  Section  2537,  Political  Code,  and  adding  four 
new  sections  to  said  code  to  be  known  as  Sections  2534,  2554, 
2555  and  2556  thereof  respectively,  all  relating  to  the  creation 
of  a  board  of  State  harbor  commissioners  for  the  harbor  of 
San  Francisco,   etc. 

S.  B.  68.  Scott.  Amending  Section  2522,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  employees  and  their  duties  of  the  State  Harbor 
Commission    of    San    Francisco    Harbor. 

A.  B.  679.  Pettis.  Adding  Section  2522a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  manner  in  which  the  Secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners  shall  keep  the  accounts, 
and  authorizing  the  employment  of  a  certified  public  account- 
ant to  certify  to  statements  of  accounts  and  authorizing  the 
compensation   to   be   paid   such   certified   public   accountant. 

S.  B.  11.  Hans.  Amending  Section  2552,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  compensation  of  the  officers  of 
the  Board  of  State  Harbor  Commissioners  of  San  Francisco, 
and  the  employees  of  the  State  of  California  employed  by. 
and  under  said  Board  of  State  Harbor  Commissioners  of  San 
FranGisco. 

S.  B.  67.  Scott.  Amending  Section  2552,  Political  Code,' 
increasing  the  salaries  of  officers  and  employees  of  the  State 
Harbor    Commissioners    of    San    Francisco    Harbor. 

S.  B.  94.  Beban.  Amending  Section  2552,  Political  Cade, 
relating  to  the  salaries  of  the  Board  of  State  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners and  assistants,  said  amendment  relating  to  the  salary 
of  the  president  of  the  board  and  his  duties,  and  the  fund  out 


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of  which  the  said  salaries  and  the  compensation  of  the  em- 
ployees   of    the    board    shall    be    payable. 

A.  B.  406.  Ryan.  Amending  Section  2552,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  salaries  of  the  Board  of  State  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners and  assistants,  said  amendment  relating  to  the  salary  of 
the  president  of  the  board  and  his  duties,  and  the  fund  out  of 
which  said  salaries  and  the  compensation  of  employees  of  the 
board  shall  be  payable. 

S.  B.  521.  Luce.  Amending  Sections  2605  and  2607,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  State  Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners  for  the 
bay  of  San  Diego. 

S.  B.  540.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  2643,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors  relating  to 
roads. 

A.  B.  774.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  2643,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors  respecting  roads. 

S.  B.  591.  Shearer.  Amending  Section  2643,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors,  relating  to 
roads,  and  repealing  Section  2641,  Political  Code. 

A.  B.  796.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  2643,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  highway  officers,  boards 
of  supervisors,  county  surveyors  and  the  State  Department  of 
Engineering,   respecting  roads  and  highways. 

A.  B.  1335.  Long.  Amending  Section  2643,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors,  relating  to 
roads,   and   repealing   Section   2641,    Political   Code. 

A.  B.  869.  Sharkey.  Amending  Sections  2651,  2654  and  2655, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  highway  taxes. 

A.  B.  1018.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  2684,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  viewing  of  road  changes. 

A.  B.  531.  Pettis.  Amending  Section  2691,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   roads   and   highways. 

S.  B.  498.  Breed.  Adding  Sections  2697  and  2698  (new)  to 
the   Political   Code,   relating  to   the   abandonment   of  highways. 

A.  B.  1414.  Long.  Adding  Sections  2750a  and  2750b  (new) 
to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  creation  of  road  com- 
missioners in  permanent  road  divisions;  and  repealing  Sections 
2751,  2752,  2768  and  2769,  Political  Code,  relating  to  permanent 
road   divisions. 

S.  B.  558.  Brown.  Amending  Section  2978,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  constitution  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  and 
the   terms   of   the  members   of   said   board. 

S.  B.  95.  Beban.  Amending  Section  2982,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  secretary  and  assistant  to  the  secretary  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health. 

A.  B.  440.  Conrad.  Amending  Section  2982,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  Secretary  and  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 


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S.  B.  585.  Flint.  Amending  Section  3075,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  office  of  State  Registrar  of  the  Bureau  of  Vital 
Statistics  and  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  providing  for 
deputies,   clerks  and  assistants  and  their  compensation. 

A.  B.  757.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  3075,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  office  of  the  State  Registrar  of  the  Bureau  of 
Vital  Statistics  and  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  providing 
for  deputies,   clerks  and  assistants  and  their  compensation. 

A.  B.  1353.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  3084,  Political 
Code,   relating  to   the   issuance  of  burial  permits. 

A.  B.  405.  Prendergast.  Amending  Sections  3209,  3215,  3216 
and  3222,  Political  Code,  all  relating  to  weights  and  measures 
and  the  standards  thereof. 

A.  B.  99.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  3247a,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  purchase  of  supplies  for  the  State  by  boards, 
committees  and  other  persons. 

Provides  that  "every  board,  committee,  official,  officer  and 
every  other  person"  authorized  to  purchase  supplies  for  the 
State  of  California  or  any  of  its  institutions  or  offices,  "shall 
always  purchase  only  such"  supplies,  etc.,  as  have  been  grown, 
manufactured,  prepared  or  produced  in  California.  In  adver- 
tising for  bids  for  any  special  mark  or  brand  of  article  the 
advertisement  shall  contain,  following  the  name  of  the  article, 
the  words,  "or  a  similar  article  of  equal  value,  utility  and 
merit". 

A.  B.  48.  Brown.  Amending  Section  3306,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  cemeteries,  and  providing  that  six  or  more  human 
bodies  buried  at  one  place  constitutes  the  place  a  public  ceme- 
tery or  graveyard   for   the   use   of  a   city,    town   or  village. 

S.  B.  1098.  Scott.  Amending  Section  3366,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors,  city  councils 
and  town  trustees,  in  their  respective  counties,  cities,  and 
towns,  to  impose  a  license  tax. 

A.  B.  1017.  Hawson.  Amending  Sections  3456,  3457,  3462, 
3465  and  3466,  Political  Code,  relating  to  reclamation  and 
swampland   districts. 

S.  B.  12.  Irwin.  Amending  Sections  3457  and  3466,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   reclamation   and   swampland   districts. 

A.  B.  1154.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  3457,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  payment  of  warrants  drawn  on  reclamation 
districts  and  prescribing  the  method  of  payment  thereof. 

A.  B.  129.  Tabler.  Amend  Section  3460,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  assessments  and  reassessments  in  reclamation  dis-, 
tricts. 

S.  B.  953.  Irwin.  Amending  Section  3462,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  assessments  of  reclamation  districts. 

A.  B.  1014.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  3462^  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  reclamation  and  swampland  districts. 


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A.  B.  1015.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  3463^  to  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  reclamation  and  swampland  districts. 

A.  B.  1153.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  3465,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  payment  of  assessment  warrants  drawn  in 
reclamation  districts. 

A.  R  lolG.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  3466%  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  reclamation  and  swampland  dis- 
tricts. 

S.  B.  786.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  3466^,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  invalid  assessments  in  reclamation  districts,  and 
providing   for    the    reassessments   of   said   lands. 

A.  B.  908.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  786.     Purkitt. 

S.  B.  31.  Irwin.  Adding  Section  3476ya  (new)  .  to  .  the.rPolitieal 
Code,  relating  to  reclamation  and  swampland  districts.  Pro- 
vides that  when  any  tract  of  land  in  a  .  district  shall  have 
been  subdivided  by  sale  or  otherwise  after  an  assessment 
shall  have  been  made  thereon,  the  trustees  must  apportion 
the  total  amount  assessed  against  the  tract  so  subdivided 
in  a  just  and  equitable  manner.  If  any  owner  within  30  days 
files .  objection  then  commissioners  who  levied  assessment  or 
some  other  person  shall  be  appointed  to  determine  and  settle 
the   apportionment. 

S.  B.  151.  Irwin.  Amending  Section  3491,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  reclamation  and  swamp  land  districts. 

A.  B.  484.  Johnson.  Amending  Section  3494,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  sale  of  school  lands  and  appropriating  $10,000 
for  the  examination  and  classification  of -said  lands. 

S.  B.  876.     Luce.     Identical  with  A.  B.  484.     Johnson. 

A.m  483.  Johnson.  Amending  Section  3498, "Political  Code, 
relating  to  applications  for  the  purchase  of  school  lands. 

S.  "B.  -875.  "Luce.  Amending  -Section  -  3498,  ^-Political  Code, 
relating  to  applications  for  the  purchase  of -school  4ahds. 

S.  B.  1012.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  3555,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  judgment  and  costs  of  foreclosing  the 
interests    of   purchasers   of    State    lands. 

S.  B.  808.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  3607,  3608,  3617, 
3627,  3628,  3629,  3641,  3643,  3650,  3663,  3678,  3679,  3701,  3728, 
3734  and  3753,  Political  Code,  and  repealing  Sections  3609,  3610, 
3719,  3757  and  3769a  thereof,  and  adding  thereto  Section  3714a 
(new),  all  relating  to  revenue  and  taxation. 

A.  B.  904.     Meek.     Identical  with  S.  B.   808.     Thompson. 

A.  B.  91.  Lostutter.  Adding  Section  3612  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  exemption  of  certain  property 
from   taxation. 

Provides  that  all  buildings  and  real  property  on  "which  sit- 
uated, used  solely  and  exclusively  for  military  purposes  by 
National  Guard,  shall  be  exempt.  Section  to  apply  only  to 
property    owned    by    corporations    formed    under  'Title  "■'XXII, 


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Part  TV,  Division  I,  Civil  Code,  membership  of  which  is  com- 
posed entirely  of  members  of  organizations  using  property  for 
military  purposes.  Provides,  also,  manner  in  which  return 
shall  be   made  on   property  so   claimed   to  be   exempt. 

S.  B.  126.  Thompson.  An  Act  to  carry  into  effect  the  pro- 
visions of  Section  l1^  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution  of 
California,  exempting  property  from  taxation  in  certain  in- 
stances, and  to  that  end  adding  Section  3612  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code  by  providing  the  manner  in  which  exemption 
may  be  secured,. the  duty,  of  the  Assessor  with  regard  .thereto, 
and  the  wars  recognized  as  within  the  intent  and  ..meaning 
of   the   section  of   the   Constitution. 

A.    B.    303.      Meek.     Identical   with  -S.    B. .  126.      Thompson. 

A. -B.   5S6.     Bartlett.     Amending -Section  3617,   PoHticalCode, 
.  defining   terms. 

Adds  to  the  definition  "real  estate",  "including -estates  for 
years  in  real  property,  the  fee  of  which  is  vested  in  any 
municipal  corporation,  State  of  California,  or  any  subdivision 
thereof". 

A.  B.  588.  Spengler.  Adding  Section  3629 V2  (new)  to  the 
Political   Code,    relating   to   taxation. 

Requires    the    cash    value    of    real    estate    and    improvements 
to    be    stated    separately;    failure,    refusal    or    neglect    to  -  state 
values  authorizes  Assessor  to  attach  such  valuation  to  state- 
ment; valuation  so  stated  shall  be  option  price  at-whieh  State 
.  or  .  county    may  .  purchase    such    property,    option    to    continue 
until   next  assessment.     Either   State   or  county   may   exercise 
such  option,  but  if.  both  elect  to  exercise  option  on  same  day, 
;  State  shall   have   precedence. 
.  S.:B.  637.     Thompson.    Amending.. Section  .3650,? Political. Code, 
relating  to  the  assessment  of  property  for.  taxation. 

A.  B.  1200.  Kramer.  Adding  Section  36.51a  (new)  to  the 
Political 'Code,  relating  to  the  publishing  and  mailing  of  the 
assessment  rolls. 

S.  B.  994.     King.     Adding  Section  3652a  (new)  to  the-Politicai 
Code,   relating  to  the  duties  of  assessors  in  counties  below  the 
•  third   class.  ""Provides   for  the   mailing,   on   or  before  the  third 
Monday  of  June,    to   each   person   to   whom   real   estate   is- as- 
sessed,  a   statement  of  the  gross  amount  of  such   assessment. 

S.  B.  806.  Thompson.  "Repealing  Sections  3664,  3665,  3666, 
3667,  3668,  3669,  3670  and  3371,  Penal  ~Code,  relating  to  revenue 
and  taxation. 

A.  B.  902.  Meek.  Repealing  Sections  3664,  3665,  3667,  3668, 
3667,"  36B8,  3669,  3P670  -and  3B7lrPolitical  "Code,-  relating-  to  reve- 
nue and  i^txation. 

B.   889.  ~  Meek.     Repealing  Sections   3664,   3665,   3666,   3667, 

3669,    3670   and    3671,    Political   Code,    as    they   now  exist, 

and-  to   re*enact- said    sections,- -and   adding    twenty-nine    new 


A. 
3668 


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sections  to  said  code,  to  be  numbered  Sections  3664a,  3664b, 
3664c,  3664d,  3665a,  3665b,  3665c,  3666a,  3666b,  3666c,  3667a,  3667b, 
3667c,  3668a,  3668b,  3668c,  3669a,  3669b,  3669c,  3669d,  3669e,  3670a, 
3670b,  3670c,  3671a,  3671b,  3671c,  3671d,  3671e,  all  relating  to 
taxation  of  public  service  and  other  corporations,  banks  and 
insurance    companies    for    the    benefit    of    the    State. 

S.  B.  1164.     Thompson.     Identical  with  A.  B.  889.     Meek. 

A.  B.  843.  Judson.  Amending  Sections  3672  and  3682,  Po- 
litical   Code,    relating    to    the    equalization    of    taxes. 

S.  B.  799.  Gerdes.  Adding  Section  3673a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  powers  of  county  boards  of  equali- 
zation. 

A.   B.   894.     Byrnes.     Identical  with   S.   B.   799.     Gerdes. 

Requires  Board  of  Supervisors,  sitting  as  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion, before  increasing  rate  upon  any  class  of  property,  to 
publish  notice  of  intention  to  do  so  for  five  days  in  a  daily 
newspaper  or  one  time  in  a  weekly  newspaper  published  in 
the  county,  fixing  therein  a  time  not  less  than  ten  days  from 
the  first  day  of  publication  when  any  person  interested  may 
appear   and   be   heard. 

S.  B.  638.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  3692,  3696,  3714, 
3732,  3737,  3746,  3756,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  assess- 
ment,   equalization   and   collection   of   taxes. 

A.   B.    1338.      Sisson.     Identical  with   S.   B.    638.     Thompson. 

A.  B.  150.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  3732,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  delivery  of  duplioate  assessment  books  to  the 
tax  collector  by  the  county  auditor. 

'  S.  B.  692.  Wolfe.  Adding  Section  3749a  (new)  to  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  notice  to  non-resident  owners  of  real  property 
by  tax  collectors  as  to  amount  of  taxes  or  assessment  due  and 
time  and  place  for  payment. 

A.    B.    581.      McPherson.      Amending    Section    3766,    Political 
Code,   relating  to  the  manner  of  publication  of  the  delinquent 
tax  list- 
's.  B.   633.     Benson.     Amending   Section   3766,   Political   Code, 
relating  to  the  manner  of  publication  of  the  delinquent  tax  list. 

S.  B.  321..  Thompson.  Amending  Section  3773,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  revenue  and  taxation. 

A.  B.  697.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  3804,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   taxes   erroneously   collected. 

S.  B.  674.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  3804,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  taxes  erroneously  collected. 

A.  B,  906,  Schmitt.  Adding  Section  3804a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  approval  or  rejection  of  claims 
for  refund  of  taxes,  penalties  and  costs  by  boards  of  super- 
visors. 

S.    B.    815.      Cogswell;      Adding    Section    3804b    (new)    to    the 


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Political  Code,  relating  to  the  cancellation  of  erroneous  assess- 
ments. 

A.    B.    1046.     Meek.     Identical   with    S.    B.    815.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  252.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  3819,  Political 
Code,   relating  to  payment  of  taxes  under  protest. 

Eliminates  the  provision  added  in  1913,  requiring  such  ac- 
tions to  be  brought  by  the  owner  or  his  guardian,  or  in  case 
of  death  by  his  executor  or  administrator,  and  prohibiting  re- 
covery if  action  brought  by  an  assignee. 

A.  B.  695.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  3819,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  payment  of  taxes  under  protest. 

S.  B.  673.  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  3819,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   payment   of   taxes   under   protest. 

S.  B.  127.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  3823,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  collection  of  taxes  by  the  assessor. 

Provides  that  for  the  assessment  year  1915  no  collection  of 
taxes  shall  be  made  by  the  assessor  in  aid  of  the  Panama - 
Pacific  International  Exposition. 

A.   B.   304.     Meek.     Identical  with  S.   B.   127.     Thompson. 

A.  B.  635.  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  3823,  Political 
Code,   relating  to  the  duties  of  assessors. 

A.  B.  767.  Sisson.  Amending  Sections  3824,  3825  and  3828, 
Political  Code,  all  relating  to  the  collection  of  taxes  on  per- 
sonal property,  when  such  taxes  are  not  a  lien  upon  real  prop- 
erty sufficient  to  secure  the  payment  thereof. 

A.  B.  738.  Meek.  Amending  Section  3866,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  settlements  of  county  treasurers  with  the  State. 

S.  B.  707.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  3866,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  settlements  of  county  treasurers  with  the  State. 

A.  B.  546.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  3876,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  allowance  of  mileage  to  county  treasurers  in  set- 
tlements   with    the    State,    and    appropriating    $7500    therefor. 

S.  B.  528.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  3897,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  sale  of  property  for  delinquent  taxes. 

A.    B.   1339.     Sisson.     Identical  with   S.    B.   528.      Thompson. 

A.  B.  669.  Kramer.  Amending  Section  4014,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  township  officers. 

Provides  for  four  justices  of  the  peace  and  four  constables 
in   townships   of   more   than   100,000  and  less   than   300,000. 

S.  B.  595.  Irwin.  Amending  Section  4014,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   township  officers. 

A.  B.  1427.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  4014,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  township  officers. 

A.  B.  617.  Scott,  C.  E.  Amending  Section  4023,  Political 
Code,    relating   to   the   qualification   of   county   officers. 

S.  B.  931.     Carr.     Identical  with  A.   B.   617.     Scott. 

A.  B.  355.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  4028,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  qualifications  and  election  of  supervisors. 


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Provides  for  election  of  supervisors  at  large  and  not  by 
districts. 

S.  B.  920.  Brown.  Amending  Section  4028,  Political  Code, 
rpJating  to  qualifications  and  election  of  supervisors. 

A.  B.  533.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  4029,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    changes    in    supervisorial    districts. 

S.  B.  332.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the   general   powers   of   boards   of   supervisors. 

Provides  (Sec.  5a  new)  for  the  employment  by  three-fifths 
vote  of  a  road  engineer. 

S.  B.  537.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  general  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors. 

S.  B.  845.  .  Breed.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the   general   powers   of   boards   of   supervisors. 

A.  B.  926.  Encell.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  general  powers  of  boards  of  supervisors. 

A.  B.  1006.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Paragraphs  2  and  3  of 
Section  4041,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties 
of  county  boards  of  supervisors. 

A3  B.  1105.  Wills.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    the    general    powers    of    Boards    of    Supervisors. 

A.  B.  139S.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the   general   powers   of   boards   of   supervisors. 

S  B.  1114.  Flint.  Amending  Section  4041,  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  powers  and  duties  of  county  boards  of  supervisors. 

A.  B.  357.  Harris.  Adding  Section  4041b  (new)  to  the  Polit- 
ical Code,  relating  to  the  manner  of  doing  construction  work 
in  counties,   exceeding  in  cost  the  sum  of  $500. 

Provides  that  no  contract  where  the  cost  exceeds  $500  shall 
be  let,  if  with  10  days  after  first  publication  or  first  day  of 
posting  of  notice  for  bids,  an  initiative  petition  be  filed  with  the 
county  clerk  with  the  requisite  number  of  signatures,  asking 
that  the  work  be  done  by  day  labor.  If  the  petition  conform 
to  Section  4058,  Political  Code,  a  special  election  shall  be 
called  at  which  the  matter  shall  be  voted  on  and  if  a  majority 
of  electors  favor  doing  the  work  by  day  labor,  it  shall  be  so 
done;  if  a  majority  be  opposed,  then  a  contract  shall  be  let  for 
the  work.  Any  contract  let  before  determination  of  such 
question  by  electors  shall  be  void. 

S,  B.  1102,  King.  Amending  Section  4048,  Political  Code, 
regarding  the  purchase  of  supplies  and  advertising  by  coun- 
ties, defining  the  duties  and  powers  of  officers  relating  thereto, 
and  establishing  a  legal  square  and  a  legal  rate. 

A.  B.  1264.     McPherson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1102.     King. 

A.  B.  1263.  McPherson.  Ameifcding  Section  4049,  Political 
Code,  regarding  the  publication  of  proceedings  of  boards  of 
supervisors. 

Provides   for.  publication,    within    three- days   after    each    ses- 


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sion,   in  at  least  two  newspapers  in  the  county,  of  a  statement 
of  all  proceedings  of  the  board  with  list  of  all  claims  allowed. 

S.  B.  542.  Cogswell.  Amending  Sections  4075  and  4076,  Polit- 
ical Code,  relating  to  payment  and  form  of  claims  against  the 
county. 

A.  B.  348.  Ream.  Amending  Section  4085%,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  authorizing  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  several 
counties  of  this  State  to  declare  innavigable  streams  highways 
for  the  purpose  of  fishing,  and  providing  for  the  use  of  the 
same. 

A.  B.  335.  Satterwhite.  Adding  Sec^-on  4091  to  the  Political 
Code,  relative  to  the  payment  of  salaries  of  all  regular  em- 
ployees of  counties,  cities  and  counties,  cities  and  towns,  and 
providing   a   sinking   fund    therefor. 

A.  B.  1026.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4099a,  Political  Code, 
by  fixing  a  definite  amount  as  compensation  for  services 
rendered. 

S.  B.  143.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  4112,  Political  Code, 
relating   to    county   treasurers'    reports. 

A.  B.  146.  Encell.  Amending  Section  4131,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the  duties  of   county   recorders. 

S.  B.  1004.  Jones.  Amending  Section  4131,  Political  Code, 
relating  to   the   recording  of  certain   instruments. 

A.  B.  1454.  McKnight.  Amending  Section  4131,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  duties  of  county  recorders. 

S.  B.  1028.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  4131,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   the  duties   of   County   Recorder. 

S.  B.  320.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  4132,  Political  Code, 
prescribing    what    indexes    shall    be    kept    by    county    recorders. 

A.  B.  366.  Mouser.  Amending  Section  4132,  Political  Code, 
prescribing  what  indexes  shall  be  kept  by  county  recorders. 

Strikes  out  of  Subdivision  24  the  words  "approved  March 
17,  1897." 

A.  B.  1333.  Chenoweth  (by  request).  Amending  Section  4142, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  time  when  contracts,  plans  and 
specifications  may   be   returned   or   destroyed   by  Recorders. 

A.  B.  145.  Encell.  Amending  Section  4145,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    the    duties    of   coroners. 

S.  B.  863.  Crowley.  Amending  Section  4146.  Political  OM«, 
relating   to   the  duties   of   the   Coronor. 

A.  B.  978.  Prendergast.  Amending  Section  414(5,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  duties  of  coroner. 

A.  B.  1177.  Beck  (by  request).  Amending  Section  4153  of 
the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  duties  of  District  Attorneys. 

Omits  all  but  the  first  two  subdivisions,  and  strikes  out 
from  subdivision  2  provision  that  District  Attorney  shall  at- 
tend upon  and  advise  the  grand  jury. 

S.    B.    231.      Anderson.      Adding    Section    4153a    (new)    to    the 


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Political  Code,  providing  for  the  powers  and  duties  of  district 
attorneys  in  actions  for  divorce  or  annulment  of  marriage, 
and  to  authorize  the  appointment  of  additional  deputies  by 
district  attorneys  in  counties  of  the  first,  second,  third,  fourth, 
fifth,  sixth,  seventh,  eight,  ninth  and  tenth  classes,  and  pro- 
viding for  their  compensation. 

A.  B.  1127.  Harris  (by  request).  Adding  Section  4154a 
(new)  to  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  duties  of  District 
Attorneys. 

S.  B.  204.  Kehoe.  Repealing  Section  4156b,  Political  Code, 
prohibiting  the  defense  by  district  attorneys  of  persons  charged 
with  crime,  and  adding  Section  4156c  (new)  thereto,  prohibiting 
the  defense  by  district  attorneys  of  persons  charged  with  crime. 

Prohibits  district  attorneys,  during  their  incumbency,  from 
defending,  assisting  in  the  defense  of,  or  acting  as  counsel 
for  any  person  charged  with  crime;  penalty,  forfeiture  of  office. 

S.  B.  446.  King.  Adding  Section  4190a  (new)  to  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  law  library  fund  and  repealing  Section 
4221a. 

Authorizing  boards  of  supervisors  to  set  apart  each  month 
from  fees  collected  by  county  clerks  in  addition  to  funds  now 
provided  for  by  law  a  sum  not  exceeding  $100  in  any  one 
month  to  be  paid  by  County  Clerk  into  "Law  Library  Fund", 
designated  in   Section   4190. 

S.  B.  752.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  4218,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  duties  of  county  surveyors  and  the  furnishing 
of  assessors'  maps  and  block  books. 

A.  B.  393.  Johnson.  Amending  Section  4221a,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  amount  of  money  that  the  boards  of  super- 
visors of  the  several  counties  may  set  apart  and  pay  into  the 
"Law  Library  Fund." 

Increases  amount  to  $100. 

S.  B.  118.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Section  4232,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees,  and  expenses  of  officers  in 
counties  of   the   third   class.     (Alameda   County.) 

A.  B.  508.  Satterwhite.  Adding  Section  4232a  to  the  Political 
Code,  providing  for  the  compensation  of  grand  jurors  and 
trial  jurors  in  the  Superior  Court  in  counties  of  the  third  class. 

Fixes  fees  at  $3  per  day  and  necessary  railway  fare. 

S.  B.  720.  Jones.  Amending  Section  4233,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  officers  and  salaries  in  counties  of  the  fourth  class 
(Santa  Clara  County). 

A.  B.  755.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  720.     Jones 

A.  B.  1256.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  4234,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  fifth 
class   (Fresno  County). 

A.  B.  263.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  4235,  Political  Code, 
relating   to    the   compensation   and   fees   of   officers   of   counties 


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of  the  sixth  class  and  their  assistants,  deputies  and  clerks 
(Sacramento    county). 

S.  B.  260.  Luce.  Amending  Section  4236,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees  and  expenses  of  officers  in  coun- 
ties  of  the   seventh   class    (San   Diego   county). 

S.  B.  839.  Stuckenbruck.  Amending  Section  4238,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  compensation  of  county  and  township 
officers  of  counties  of  the  ninth  class,  and  to  number,  appoint- 
ment and  salaries  of  their  assistants  and  deputies  (San  Joa- 
quin  County). 

A.  B.  1107.  Salisbury.  Amending  Section  4239,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  compensation  of  county  and  township 
officers  of  counties  of  the  tenth  class,  and  to  the  number, 
appointment  and  salaries  of  their  assistants  and  deputies. 

A.  B.  623.  Harris.  Amending  Section  4240,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  county  and  township  officers 
of  counties   of  the   eleventh   class    (Kern   County). 

A.  B.  844.  Scott,  F.  C.  Amending  Section  4241,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  salaries  and  compensations  of  officers  of 
counties  of  the   twelfth  class   (Tulare  County). 

A  B.  555.  Avey.  Amending  Section  4242,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
thirteenth    class    (Riverside    County). 

S.  B.  730.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  4243,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the  four- 
teenth class  (Orange  County). 

A.   B.   994.     Burke.     Identical  with   S.   B.   730.     Anderson. 

S.  B.  152.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  4244,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
fifteenth   class    (Humboldt   county). 

A.  B.  698.     Quinn.      Identical   with   S.   B.    152.      Kehoe. 

S.  B.  19.  Owens.  Amending  Section  4245,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees,  and  expenses  of  officers  in 
counties   of   the   sixteenth    class. 

A.  B.  673.     Sharkey.      Indentical   with    S.    B.    19.     Owens. 

A.  B.  728.  Kramer.  Amending  Section  4246,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
seventeenth   class   (Santa  Barbara  County). 

S.   B.   762.      Mott.     Identical  with   S.    B.    728.     Kramer. 

A.  B.  872.  Widenmann.  Amending  Section  4247,  Political 
Code,  relative  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of 
the  eighteenth   class   (Solano   County). 

S.  B.  666.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  4248,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees  and  expenses  of  officers  in  counties 
of  the  nineteenth  class    (Butte  County). 

A.  B.  931.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  4249,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  county  officers  and  their  salaries  and  depu- 
ties;   to   township  officers  and   their  compensation;   and   to   the 


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compensation    of   jurors .  and   grand   jurors    in    counties    of   the 
twentieth  class   (San  Mateo  County). 

82  B.  912.     Flint.     Identical  With  A.,  B.  931.     Brown. 

A.  B.  500.  McPherson.  Amending  Section  4250,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  the  officers  of  the 
counties  of  the  twenty-first  class    (Santa  Cruz  County). 

A.  B.  13.  Manning.  Amending  Section  4251  of  the  Political 
Code  of  the  State  of  California,  relating  to  the  salaries,  fees 
and  expenses  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  twenty-second  class 
(Marin  County). 

S.  B.  177.  Owens.  Amending  Section  4251,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees,  and  expenses  of  officers  in 
counties   of   the   twenty-second   class    (Marin   county). 

A.  B.  1091.  Manning.  Amending  Section  4251,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  the 
counties    of    the    twenty-second    class    (Marin    County). 

A.  B.  1411.  Boyce.  Amending  Section  4252,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  compensation  of  the  county  and  town- 
ship officers  of  counties  of  the  twenty-third  class  (Monterey 
County). 

S.  B.  787.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  4253,  Political  Code, 
State  of  California,  relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  in 
counties  of  the  twenty-fourth  class  (Mendocino  County). 

A.   B.   876.     Pettis.     Identical  with   S.   B.   787.     Purkitt. 

S.  B.  211.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  4254,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  compensation  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  twenty- 
fifth    class    (Stanislaus   county). 

A.  B.  840.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  4256,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  compensation  of  officers  and  jurors  of  counties  of 
the  twenty-seventh  class,  their  clerks,  deputies,  stenograph- 
ers and  assistants   (San  Luis  Obispo  County). 

A.  B.  624.  McCray.  Amending  Section  4257,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  county  and  township  officers 
of  counties  of  the  twenty-eighth  class,  and  to  number,  ap- 
pointment and  salaries  of  their  assistants  and  deputies, 
(Shasta.   County),   by   title  only, 

A.  B.  273.  Ream.  Amending  Section  4258.  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
twenty-ninth    class    (Siskiyou    County). 

S.  B.  524.  Shearer.  Amending  Section  4258,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
twenty-ninth   class   (Siskiyou  County). 

S.    B.    684.      Mott.      Amending    Section    4259,    Political    Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees   of  officers   in   counties   of  the  . 
thirtieth  class  (Ventura  County). 

A.    B.    737.      Edwards.      Identical    with    S.    B.    684,    Mott. 

S.    B.    a35.     Birdsall.     Amending    Section    4260,    Political   Code; 


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relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
thirty-first  class.     (Placer  County.) 

S.  B.  594.  Irwin.  Amending  Section  4261,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  compensation  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  thirty- 
second   class    (Kings   County). 

A.  B.  1334.  Long.  Amending  Section  4261,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
thirty- second  class   (Kings  County). 

A.  B.  141.  Rutherford.  Amending  Sections  4263  and  4263a, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  salaries  of  officers  and  fees  of 
jurors    in. counties   of   the   thirty-fourth    class. 

S.  B.  454.  Birdsall.  Amending  Sections  4263  and  4263a, 
Political  Code,  relating  to  the  salaries  of  officers  and  fees  of 
jurors  in   counties  of  the   thirty-fourth  class   (Nevada  County). 

S.  B.  970.  Birdsall.  Adding  Section  4263a  (new)  to  the 
Political  Code,  relating  to  and  fixing  the  compensation  of 
grand  and  trial  jurors  in  the  Superior  Courts  in  counties 
of. the  thirty-fourth  class  (Nevada  County)  at  $3  per  day  and 
mileage  at  35  cents  a  mile,  except  that  no  one  mileage  shall 
exceed    $11.00,    and    providing    for    the    payment    thereof. 

A.  B.  616.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4264,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
thirty-fifth   class.      (Yolo   County.) 

A.  B.  873.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4264,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
thirty-fifth  class   (Yolo  County). 

A.  B.  1029.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4264,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
thirty- fifth    class    (Yolo   County). 

A.  B,  216.  Wills.  Amending  Section  4265,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
thirty-sixth    class    (Imperial   County). 

A.  B.  625.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  4266,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  and  fees  and  mileage 
of  jurors  in  counties  of  the  thirty-seventh  class  (Tehama 
County). 

A.  B.  912.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4267,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees  and  expenses  of  officers  in  coun- 
ties of  the   thirty-eighth  class   (Yuba  County). 

A.  B.  667.  Browne.  Amending  Section  4268,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  counties  of  the  thirty-ninth  class.  (Tuolumne 
County.) 

S.  B.  408.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  4269  of  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  compensation  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
fortieth    class.     (Calaveras    County.) 

A.  B.  743.  Kerr.  Amending  Section  4270,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
forty-first    class    (Amador    County). 


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A.  B.  1412.  Boyce.  Amending  Section  4272,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  +he 
forty- third   class    (San   Benito   County). 

S.  B.  789.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  4275,  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  salary  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  forty-sixth 
class   (Glenn  County). 

A.   B.   911.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.  B.   789.     Purkitt. 

A.  B.  131.  Tabler.  Amending  Section  4277,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries,  fees  and  compensation  of  officers  of 
counties    of    the    forty- eighth    class    (Modoc    county). 

S.  B.  665.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  4277,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries,  fees  and  expenses  of  officers  in  counties 
of  the  forty-eighth  class  (Sutter  County). 

A.  B.  1307.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  4278,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
forty- ninth   class    (Modoc   County). 

A.  B.  102.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  4279,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  of  officers  of  counties  of  the  50th  class 
(Plumas  county). 

S.  B.  848.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  4279,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  of  county  officers  for  counties  of  the 
fiftieth   class    (Lake   County). 

S.  B.  336.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  4280,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
fifty-first   class.     (Plumas  County.) 

A.  B.  1308.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  4281,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
fifty-second    class    (Lassen    County). 

S.  B.  337.  Birdsall.  Amending  Section  4282,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  compensation  of  officers  in  counties  of  the 
fifty- third  class.     (Sierra  County.) 

S.  B.  261.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  4283,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  compensation  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  fifty- 
fourth   class   (Mariposa  county). 

A.  B'.  666.     Browne.     Identical  with   S.    B.    261.     Maddux. 

A.  B.  839.  McCray.  Amending  Section  4284,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
fifty-fifth   class   (Trinity   County). 

S.  B.  419.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  4285,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  of  officers  in  counties  of  the  fifty-sixth 
class.     (Del  Norte  County.) 

A.  B.  566.  Ream.  Amending  Section  4285,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  salaries  and  fees  of  officers  of  counties  of  the 
fifty-sixth   class   (Alpine'  County). 

S.  B.  750.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  4286,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  counties  of  the  fifty-seventh  class,  and  salaries  of 
officers  thereof  (Mono  County). 

S.  B.  538.     Cogswell.     Amending  Section  4288,  Political  Code, 


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by  adding  a  new  section  thereto  permitting-  boards  of  super- 
visors in  counties  of  the  first  class  or  counties  operating  under 
a  charter  to  fix  dates  on  which  salaried  employees  may  be  paid. 

A.  B.  1350.  Brown,  H.  W.  Adding  Section  4292a  (new)  to 
the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  compensation  of  justices  of 
the  peace. 

S.  B.  112.  Luce.  Adding  Section  4293  (new)  to  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  qualifications  of  coroners  and  deputy 
coroners  and  prohibiting  certain  agreements  on  the  part  of 
such  coroners  and  deputy  coroners. 

Declares  ineligible  to  the  office  of  coroner  or  deputy  coroner 
any  person  engaged  or  interested  in  the  business  of  under- 
taking, embalming,  or  of  directing  funerals,  or  who  is  em- 
ployed in  such  business,  and  prohibiting  any  coroner  or  deputy 
coroner  from  entering  into  any  agreement  with  any  under- 
takers to  favor  them  in  the  handling  of  cases  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  coroner.  Violation  works  forfeiture  of 
office. 

S.  B.  164.  Benson.  Amending  Section  4295,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   official   services   and    fees. 

A.  B.  30.  McCray.  Amending  Section  4300,  Political  Code, 
relative    to    fees   and    mileage    of   witnesses. 

Witness  fees  fixed  at  $2  per  day  and  10  cents  a  mile,  going 
only,  for  travel  by  rail  or  water,  20  cents  per  mile  by  wagon 
road,    and    25    cents    per    mile    by    trail. 

S.  B.  162.  Benson.  Amending  Section  4300a,  Political  Code, 
relating    to    the    fees    of    county    clerks. 

Fixes  a   new   schedule  of  fees. 

A.  B.  1057.  Canepa  (by  request).  Amending  Section  4300a, 
Political    Code,    relating    to    County    Clerk's    fees. 

S.  B.  353.  Jones.  Amending  Section  4300c,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  the  fees  to  be  charged  by  recorders. 

A.  B.  1056.  Canepa  (by  request).  Amending  Section  4300e, 
Political   Code,    relating   to  Justices   of   the   Peace   fees. 

A.  B.  822.  Rominger.  Amending  Section  4300f,  Political 
Code,  relating  to  jurors'  fees. 

A.  B.  1050.  Harris.  Amending  Section  4300f,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  jurors'  fees. 

A.  B.  700.  Quinn.  Amending  Section  4300g,  Political  Code, 
relating   to   witness   fees. 

S.  B.  968.  Benson.  Amending  Section  4300k,  Political  Code, 
by  providing  that  township  officers  must  demand  the  pay- 
ment of  all  fees  in  civil  cases  in  advance,  except  that  such 
advance  payment  may  be  waived  by  Justices  of  the  Peace  in 

rtain  cases. 
.  B.  1209.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  968.     Benson. 

A.  B.  982.  Ryan.  Amending  Section  4307,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  county  charges. 


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128  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

S.  B.  274.  Jones.  Amending  Section  4316,  Political  Code, 
relating  to  officers  prohibited  from  practicing  law. 

Includes  district  attorneys  who  are  allowed  deputies  by  law, 
among  the  officers  prohibited  from  practicing  law;  and  pro- 
vides as  a   penalty  for  violation  forfeiture  of  office. 

A.    15.    1897.      Wright,   T.   M.     Identical  with   S.   B.   274.     Jones. 

A.  B.  548.  Ellis  (by  request).  Amending  Section  4316, 
Political  Code,  prohibiting  certain  county  officers  from  prac- 
ticing law. 

Includes  "assessors"  in  the  prohibition  of  the  statute;  and 
prohibits  Sheriffs,  Clerks.  Assessors  and  Constables  from  act- 
ing as  collectors  or  for  any  collection  agency. 

A.  B.  l)2f>.  Manning.  Amending  Section  4408,  Political  Code, 
relating   to  additional   powers  of  common   council. 

S.  B.  929.     Carr.     Identical  with  A.  B.  925.     Manning. 

A.  P.  40  1.  Heck  (by  request).  To  amend  the  Political  Code, 
relative  to  the  manner  of  collecting  property  taxes.  (Intro- 
duced by  title  only.) 

A.  B.  865.  Prendergast.  Adding  a  new  section  to  the  Polit- 
ical Code,  concerning  insurance  and  surety  companies,  cor- 
porations, associations,  societies,  firms,  agents,  brokers,  em- 
ployees and  other  persons;  prohibiting  rebating  or  accepting 
rebates  on  insurance  bonds,  and  providing  for  the  revoking 
or  the  suspension  of  licenses  by  and  prescribing  the  powers 
and  duties  of   the  Insurance  Commissioner. 

S.  B.  1024.  Benedict.  Amending  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  the 
Political  Code  by  adding  and  enacting  new  chapters  to  be  desig- 
nated Chapters  1,  la,  lb,  lc,  Id  and  le,  relating  to  and  creating 
a  State  Board  of  Administration;  providing  for  the  organization 
of  such  board;  defining  its  powers  and  duties;  prescribing  the 
number  and  fixing  the  salaries  of  the  members  and  employees 
thereof;  providing  for  the  government  and  management  by 
said  Board  of  Administration  of  the  State  hospitals  for  the 
insane  and  other  incompetent  persons,  the  State  schools  and 
institutions  for  reformation,  the  Veterans'  Home  of  California, 
the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  Home,  the  Industrial  Home  for  the 
Adult  Blind;  for  the  appointment,  salaries,  powers  and  duties 
of  the  executive  and  other  officers  and  employees  Of  said  in- 
stitutions and  for  the  commitment  or  admission  and  care, 
custody  and  maintenance  of  the  inmates  and  members  of  such 
institutions;  and  to  amend  said  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  the 
Political  Code  by  renumbering  Chapter  lc  thereof,  relating  to 
the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  Home  of  California  and  designating 
said  chapter  as  Chapter  If,  and  to  repeal  Chapter  1  of  Title 
V  of  Part  III  of  the  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  State 
Commission  in  Lunacy,  State  hospitals  and  care,  custody, 
apprehension  and  commitment  of  insane  and  other  incompetent 
persons,  and  Chapter  lb  of  Title  V  of  Part  III  of  the  Political 
Code,    relating    to    the    Industrial    Home    for    the    Adult    Blind; 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  129 

and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  'An  Act  to  create  a  State  Board 
of  Charities  and  Corrections,  prescribing  its  duties  and  powers, 
and  appropriating  money  therefor",  approved  March  25,  1903, 
and  all  Acts  amendatory  thereof  or  supplemental  thereto,  and 
to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  'An  Act  providing  for  the  super- 
vision and  control  by  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Cor- 
rections of  the  placing  of  dependent  children  into  homes  and 
for  the  supervision  of  all  societies  or  organizations  engaged  in 
such  work  and  known  as  children's  home  finding  societies", 
approved  April  24,  1911;  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  'An 
Act  to  establish  a  school  of  industry  and  providing  for  the 
maintenance  and  management  of  the  same  and  to  make  an 
appropriation  therefor",  approved  March  11,  1889,  and  all  Acts 
amendatory  thereof  and  supplemental  thereto;  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  establish  a  State  reform  school 
for  juvenile  offenders  and  to  make  an  appropriation  therefor", 
approved  March  11,  1SS9,  and  all  Acts  amendatory  thereof  or 
supplemental  thereto;  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act 
to  accept  from  the  Veterans'  Home  Association  the  conveyance 
of,  and  to  vest  title  In  the  State  of  California  to,  the  tract 
of  land  in  Napa  county  known  as  the  Veterans'  Home,  with  the 
improvements  and  furnishings  thereon,  to  make  the  same  a 
State  home  for  United  States  soldiers,  sailors  and  marines, 
and  to  provide  for  the  government  thereof  by  the  State",  ap- 
proved March  11,  1897,  and  all  Acts  amendatory  thereof  or 
supplemental  thereto;  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act 
to  establish  a  State  training  school  for  girls;  to  provide  for 
the  maintenance  and  management  of  the  same,  and  to  make 
an  appropriation  therefor",  approved  June  14,  1913;  and  to 
repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act. 

A.  B.  1301.  Manning.  Adding  a  new  chapter  to  Title  V  of 
Part  III,  Political  Code,  to  be  known  as  Chapter  IVc,  relating 
to  the  establishment  of  a  county  mosquito  extermination  com- 
mission, and  to  define  their  powers  and  duties. 


130  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 


APPROPRIATIONS. 

AGRICULTURAL     PARK. 

S.  B.  6.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  provide  for  the 
improvement  and  maintenance  of  grounds  at  the  State  Agri- 
cultural Park   in   the   City  of   Sacramento,   California. 

A.    B.    77.     Chenoweth.     Identical   with   S.   B.    6.      Cohn. 

S\  B.  18.  Mott.  Authorizing  the  directors  of  the  State 
Agricultural  Society  to  erect  a  new  building  and  to  furnish 
and  equip  the  same,  at  Agricultural  Park  in  the  City  of 
Sacramento,  State  of  California,  to  be  known  as  the  Woman's 
Building   and   appropriating   $50,000    therefor. 

A.    B.    8.      Gebhart.      Identical    with    S.    B.    18.      Mott. 

S.  B.  35.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  make  general 
plans  for  the  improvement  of  the  State  Fair  grounds  at  Agri- 
cultural Park  in  the  City  of  Sacramento  and  to  make  draw- 
ings, specifications  and  estimates  therefor  under  the  direction 
of  the  State  Department  of  Engineering. 

A.   B.    37.     Gebhart.     Identical  with   S.    B.    35.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  65.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  the  purchase  of 
additional  land  for  the  State  Fair  Grounds  in  the  City  of 
Sacramento. 

A.   B.   5.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.    65.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  66.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $500.00  for  the  reconstruc- 
tion of  windows  in  the  agricultural  pavilion  at  the  State 
Fair  Grounds  in  Agricultural  Park  in  the  City  of  Sacramento. 

A.   B.  39.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.  B.   66.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  297.  Cohn.  Providing  for  the  construction  and  repair- 
ing of  livestock  barns  and  sheds  on  the  State  Fair  Grounds 
at  Agricultural  Park  in  the  City  of  Sacramento,  and  appro- 
priating  $10,000    therefor. 

A.  B.  294.     Chenowetn.     Identical  with  S.  B.   297.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  909.  Cohn.  Appropriating  money  for  the  purchase  of 
additional  land  adjoining  the  State  Fair  Grounds  in  the  City 
of  Sacramento,  for  the  use  of  said  State  Fair  Grounds. 

A.  B.  990.     Gebhart.     Indentical  with  S.  B.  909.    Cohn. 

S.  B.  946.  Rush.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  furnishing,  equip- 
ping and  maintaining  the  buildings  and  grounds  at  Sacramento, 
California,  known  as  the  State  Fair  Grounds,  and  for  estab- 
lishing a  permanent-  exhibit  therein  of  the  products  and 
resources   of   the   different   counties   of   the   State  of   California, 

ARMORIES. 

S.  B.  598.  Butler.  Appropriating  $100,000  to  complete  the 
buildings,  equipping  and  furnishing  of  an  armory  to  be  used 
for  the  National  Guard  and  National  Guard  purposes  in  the 
city   of  Los   Angeles. 


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A.  B.  1244.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.  B.  598.     Butler. 

A.  B. ,  278.  Bruck.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  building 
and  construction  of  an  armory  for  the  National  Guard  at  Napa 
City,    Napa   County,    California. 

S.   B.  453.     Rush.     Identical  with  A,  B.  278.     Bruck. 

S.  B.  1142.  Hans.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  the  erection, 
construction,  equipment  and  furnishing  of  an  armory  for1  the 
National  Guard   in  the   City  of  Oakland. 

A.  B.  450.  McCray.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  building 
and  construction  of  an  armory  for  the  National  Guard  at 
Redding,   Shasta  County,   California. 

A.  B.  785.  Johnson.  Providing  for  the  building  of  an  armory 
for  the  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  California  at  San  Ber- 
nardino,  and  appropriating  $12,500  therefor. 

S.  B.  233.  Scott.  Providing  for  the  completion  of  the  armory 
for  the  National  Guard  at  San  Francisco,  and  appropriating 
$100,000  therefor. 

S.  B.  778.  Scott.  Appropriating  $2000  to  provide  a  cash 
revolving  fund  for  the  use  of  the  State  Armory  Board  for 
operating  the  State  Armory  at  San  Francisco. 

A.  B.  439.  Edwards.  To  provide  for  marking  off  and  setting 
apart  a  portion  of  the  Stockton  State  Hospital  grounds  for  a 
site  upon  which  to  construct  an  armory;  to  provide  for  the 
conveyance  and  transfer  of  the  lands  comprising  said  proposed 
site  by  said  corporation  through  its  proper  officers,  board  of 
managers  or  their  successors  as  trustees  of  such  property,  to 
the  State  of  California;  to  provide  for  the  control  and  manage- 
ment thereof;  to  provide  for  the  construction  and  erection  of 
an  armory  and  drill  hall  thereon,  and  appropriating  money 
therefor. 

CLAIMS,   COUNTY. 

A.  B.  100.  Shartel.  Appropriating  $4439.30  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Lassen  county  against  the  State  of  California  for  refund 
of   taxes   under   Section   3804,    Political   Code. 

A.  B.  598.  Wright.  Appropriating  $91.03  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Los  Angeles  County  against  the  State  of  California  for  the 
support  of  orphans,  half-orphans  and  abandoned  children  in 
the  sixty- second  fiscal  year. 

S.  B.  334.  Birdsall.  Reimbursing  the  County  of  Plumas  in 
sum  of  $7500  annua'ly  for  net  loss  of  revenue  sustained  by  the 
withdrawal  of  railroad  property  from  county  taxation  under 
the  provisions  of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution 
of  this  State. 

A.  B.  1386.  Phelps.  To  reimburse  the  county  of  San  Ber- 
nardino for  net  loss  of  revenue  sustained  by  the  withdrawal 
of  railroad  property  from  county  taxation  under  the  provisions 
of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution  of  this  State. 


132  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

CLAIMS,    PRIVATE. 

A.  B.  1364.  Quinn.  Appropriating  $1200  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Thomas  Bair  against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  578.  Phelps.  Appropriating  $39.85  to  pay  the  claim 
of  C.  S.  Baldwin  against  the  State  of  California  for  cost  in 
foreclosing    swamp    lands. 

S.  B.  784.  Finn.  Appropriating  $100  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Mrs.   Richard  D.  Barton  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  892.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.  784.     Finn. 

S.  B.  835.  Shearer.  To  authorize  the  repayment  to  Mary 
Ann  Bath,  Carrie  F.  Stone,  Alice  B.  Walker  and  John  Thad- 
deus  Bath,  as  heirs  at  law  of  John  F.  Bath,  deceased,  of 
moneys  paid  by  said  deceased  in  his  lifetime  to  the  State  of 
California,  for  the  purchase  of  certain  indemnity  or  lieu 
land  certificates,  and  which  indemnity  or  lieu  land  certificates 
have  been  surrendered  to  the  State,  said  moneys  amounting  to 
the  sum  of  $640,  and  for  such  purpose  authorizing  the  State 
Register  to  issue  a  certificate  to  said  heirs  of  John  F.  Bath, 
deceased,  for  the  amount  so  paid  for  said  indemnity  certifi- 
cates, and  authorizing  the  State  Controller  to  draw  his  war- 
rant on  the  State  Treasurer  for  said  sum,  and  authorizing 
the  State  Treasurer  to  pay  the  same,  said  sum  having  here- 
tofore been  paid  into  the  State  School  Land  Fund. 

A.   B.   1309.     Shartel.     Identical  with   S.   B.   835.     Shearer. 

A.  B.  711.  Meek.  Appropriating  $2519.88  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Mrs.  S.  L.  Bee  against  the  State  of  California  for  interest 
on  Indian  war  bonds. 

A.   B.   946.     Pettis.     Identical  with  A.   B.    711.     Meek. 

A.  B.  1110.  Wright,  T.  M.  An  Act  for  the  relief  of  M.  B. 
Bell. 

A.  B.  211.  Meek.  Appropriating  *  $309.50  to  pay  claim  of 
Bryant  &  May,   Limited,  against   the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  130.  Tabler.  Appropriating  $1500.00  to  pay  the  claim 
of  W.   H.    Carlin  against   the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  577.  Phelps.  Appropriating  $1011.25  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Clark  &  Henry  Construction  Company  against  the  State 
of  California  for  street  work  fronting  the  State  Armory  in 
the   City  of  Sacramento. 

A.  B.  1065.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $77.00  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Coast  Counties  Gas  and  Electric  Com- 
pany against  the  State  of  California. 

S.  B.  923.  Finn.  Appropriating  $1250  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Pr.    W.   B.   Coffey  against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1103.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.   B.  923.     Finn. 

A.  B.  205.  Johnson.  Appropriating  $5000  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Firth  Crossland  against  the  State  of  California  for  injuries 
received  while  in   the  employ  of  the   State. 

A.    B.   649.     Wright.     Appropriating  $540.00   to  pay   the   claim 


PENDING    LEGITIMATION,  1915.  133 

of  the  Des  Moines  Bridge  and  Iron  Company  against  the  State 
of    California. 

A.  B.  1071.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  money  to 
pay  the  claim  of  Edward  A.  Dobson  against  the  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  773.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $3217.50  to  pay  the  claim 
of   Daisy   M.    Drewry   against   the    State    of   California. 

A.  B.  1064.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $37.00  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Economic  Gas  Company  against  the  State 
of    California. 

A.  B.  1068.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $25,000.00 
to   pay   the   claim   of   Ed   Fletcher. 

A.  B.  712.  Meek.  Appropriating  $860.83  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Fred   H.   Figel  against  the   State  of  California. 

IS.    B.    1087.     Jones.      Identical   with*  A.    B.    712.      Meek. 

A.  B.  559.  Avey.  Appropriating  $600  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Frankfort  General  Insurance  Company  against  the  State  of 
California. 

S.  B.  8P6.  Birdsall.  Appropriating  $1800  to  pay  the  claim 
of  W.   E.   Gerber  against   the   State   of  California. 

A.  B.  551.  Kramer.  Appropriating  $840  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Globe  Express  Company  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1062.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  money  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Great  Western  Power  Company  against 
the   State  of  California. 

S.  B.  128.  Thompson.  Appropriating  $245  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Grocer's  Building  Company  against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  550.  Kramer.  Appropriating  $28,705  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Hartford  Fire  Insurance  Company  against  the  State 
of  California. 

A.  B.  1362.  S'chmitt.  Appropriating  $520  to  pay  the  claim 
of  A.   B.   Hooke  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  595.  Wright.  Appropriating  $674.97  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  E.  Clemens  Horst  Company  against  the  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  732.  Quinn.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  pay  the  claim  of 
the  Humboldt  and  Trinity  Toll  Road  Company  against  the 
State   of   California. 

S.  B.  804.  Scott.  To  reimburse  Russell  T.  Joy  for  money 
paid  by  him  to  the  State  of  California  in  the  purchase  of 
certain  certificates  of  indemnity  or  scrip,  on  account  of  his 
becoming  subsequently  disqualified  to  purchase  State  lands 
by  reason  of  removal  from  the  State  of  California,  and  ap- 
propriating   $872    therefor. 

A.  B.  1101.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.  804.     Scott. 

S.  B.  947.  Rush.  Appropriating  $300  to  pay  the  claim  of 
J.    W.    Kavanagh   against   the    State   of   California. 


134  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

S.  B.  514.  Scott.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the  claim  of 
William  LaHaye  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  514.  Phillips.  Appropriating  $4133.55.  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Lake.  Tahoe  Railway  and  Transportation  Company 
against   the    State   of   California. 

S.   B.   546.     Cogswell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   514.     Phillips. 

A.  B.  1060.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $3261.34  to 
pay  the  claim  of  Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and  Navigation  Com- 
pany upon  a  judgment  rendered  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

A.  B.  1482.  Chenoweth.  Appropriating  $39,500  to  pay  the 
claim  of  Lauritzen  Company  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  6t)0.  Wright.  Appropriating  $468.50  to  pay  the  claim 
of  John  Loftus  against  the  State  of  California,  for  personal 
injury   sustained. 

A.  B.  1340.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $30  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Long  Beach  Consolidated  Gas  Company- 
against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1070.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  money  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Los  Angeles  Packing  Company  against 
the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1072.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $5.00  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Frank  Lyman  Company  against  the 
State   of   California. 

S.  B.  513.  Scott.  Appropriating  $5000  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Peter  P.  Macdonald  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  204.  Johnson.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  pay  the  claim 
of  R.  T.  Macklin  against  the  State  of  California  for  injuries 
received  while  in  the  service  of  the  State. 

S.  B.  432.  Tyrrell.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the  claim  of 
C.  S.  MacMullan. 

A.  B.  1366.  Quinn.  Appropriating  $500  to  pay  the  claim  of 
James   E.   Mathews  against   the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  576.  Phelps.  Appropriating  $2871.24  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Matson  Navigation  Company  upon  a  judgment  rendered 
against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  46.  Schmitt.  Appropriating  $7000  to  pay  the  claim 
of   Johan   Alfred   Matsson   against    the   State    of   California. 

A.  B.  1215.  Ream.  Appropriating  $3600  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Mrs.  May  Arminnie  McCrea  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  672.  Schmitt.  Appropriating  $2500  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Arthur  G.   Meehan.  • 

A.  B.  549.  Kramer.  Appropriating  $1075  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Metropolitan  Casualty  Insurance  Company  of  New  York 
against  the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  109.  Arnerich.  Appropriating  $3307.06  to  pay  the 
claim  of  Miller  &  Lux  Incorporated  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  135 

S.    B.   281.     Thompson.     Identical   with   A.    B.    109.     Arnerich. 

A.  B.  110.  Arnerich.  Appropriating  $10,306.47  to  pay  the 
claim  of  Miller  &  Lux  Incorporated  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.   B.    282.     Thompson.      Identical  with   A    B.    110.     Arnerich. 

A.  B.  111.  Arnerich.  Appropriating  $10,337.06  to  pay  the 
claim  of  Miller  &  Lux  Incorporated  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.   B.   283.     Thompson.     Identical  with   A.    B.    111.      Arnerich. 

A.  B.  112.  Arnerich.  Appropriating  $3061.47  to  pay  the 
claim  of  Miller  &  Lux  Incorporated  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.    B.   284.     Thompson.     Identical   with   A.    B.    112.     Arnerich. 

A.  B.  557.  Avey.  Appropriating  $1850  to  pay  the  claim  of 
the  New  Brunswick  Fire  Insurance  Company  against  the  State 
of   California. 

A.  B.  713.  Meek.  Appropriating  $1077.50  to  pay  the  funeral 
expenses   of  the  late   Controller,   Alfred  B.    Nye. 

S.  B.  828.  Campbell.  Appropriating  $6730.10  to  pay  the 
claim  of  James  C.  Owens  against  the  State  of  California,  un- 
der the  provisions  of  Section  1  of  Article  XXIII  of  the  Consti- 
tution  of   the    State   of   California. 

A.  B.  558.  Avey.  Appropriating  $7770  to  pay  the  claim  of 
the  Pacific  Gas  and  Electric  Company  against  the  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  1061.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $901.25  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Pacific  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Com- 
pany against   the   State  of   California. 

S.   B.   997.     Crowley.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1061.     Canepa. 

A.  B.  1214.  Avey  (by  request).  Appropriating  $2020  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Pacific  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Com- 
pany against   the    State   of   California. 

A.  B.  225.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $5,314.10  to 
pay  the  claim  of  Chas.  A.  Palm  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  650.  Wright.  Appropriating  $2316.40  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Palm  Iron  and  Bridge  Works  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.  B.  451.  Slater.  Appropriating  $12,422.25,  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Petaluma  &  Santa  Rosa  Railway  Co.  upon  judgment 
rendered  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1168.  Edwards,  L.  (by  request).  Appropriating  $1000 
to  pay  the  claim  of  Clarence  H.  Peterson  against  the  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  1389.  Manning.  Appropriating  $4162.63  to  pay  the  claim 
of   A.    J.    Raisch   against   the    State   of   California. 

A.  B.  1170.  McCray.  Appropriating  $131.84  to  pay  the  claim 
of  John  S.   Reid  against  the   State  of  California. 

A.    B.    1059.      Canepa    (by   request).      Appropriating    $45.00    to 


136  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

pay  the  claim  of  Ralph  S.  Roberts  against  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.  B.  924.  Finn.  Appropriating  $480  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Saint  Francis  Hospital,  a  Corporation,  against  the  State  of 
California. 

A.    B.   1102.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.   B.  924.     Finn. 

A.  B.  1066.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $30.00  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  San  Diego  Home  Telephone  Company 
againpt   the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1067.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $117.50  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  San  Francisco-Oakland  Terminal  Rail- 
ways  against   the   State   of   California. 

A.  B.  725.  Cary.  Appropriating  $1301.43  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  fc'an  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Corporation  against  the 
State   of  California. 

A.  B.  1343.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $35  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Santa  Barbara  Gas  and  Electric  Company 
against    the   State   of  California. 

A.  B,  92,  McDonald,  J.  J.  Appropriating  $160  to  pay  the 
claim   of   R.    A.    Sarle   against    the    State   of  California. 

S.   B.   1167.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   92.     McDonald. 

A.  B.  382.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $699.80  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Frank   D.    Scott  against   the   State  of  California. 

A.  B.  199.  Kerr.  Appropriating  $1037  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Mrs.    J.    W.    Sibole   against    the    State    of   California. 

A.  B.  1341.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $905  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company 
against   the   State  of  California. 

S.  B.  925.  Finn.  Appropriating  $407.50  to  pay  the  claim  of 
the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  a  Corporation,  against  the 
State  of  California. 

A.   B.   1104     Ryan.     Identical  with   S.   B.   925.     Finn. 

S.  B.  547.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $28.50  to  pay  the  claim 
of   W.    H.    Taylor  against   the    State   of  California. 

S.  B.  678.  Flaherty.  Appropriating  $2000  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Martha  O.   Ullner  against   the   State   of  California. 

A.  B.  782.  Canepa.  Appropriating  $50,000  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Martha  O.  Ullner  against  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1063.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  $75.00  to 
pay  the  claim  of  the  Union  Home  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Corporation   against    the    State   of    California. 

A.  B.  829.  Edwards.  Appropriating  $500.00  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Benjamin   Walters   against   the    State   of   California. 

S.  B.  1149.  Mott.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the  claim  of 
Harve   Oliver   Waterman   against   the   State   of   California. 

A.  B.  1069.  Canepa  (by  request).  Appropriating  money  to 
pay  the  claim  of  Harvey  Oliver  Waterman  against  the  State 
of   California. 


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A.  B.  556.  Avey.  Appropriating  $3164.83  to  pay  the  claim 
of  the  Westinghouse  Electric  and  Manufacturing  Company 
upon   a    judgment    rendered   against    the    State    of    California. 

S.  B.  254.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $600  to  pay  the  claim 
of  Charles  W.   Williams  against   the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  475.  Fish  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B.  251. 
Benedict. 

EXPOSITIONS. 

S.  B.  345.  Thompson.  Appropriating  $60,000  for  furnishing, 
equipping  and  maintaining  the  exposition  building  at  Los  An- 
geles, California,  and  for  establishing  and  maintaining  a  per- 
manent exhibit  therein  of  the  products  and  resources  of  the 
different  counties  of  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  644.  Conrad.  Appropriating  $5000.00  for  the  main- 
tenance of  the  California  State  Building  at  the  Panama-Cali- 
fornia  Exposition. 

A.  B.  645.  Conrad.  Appropriating  $28,750.00  to  reimburse 
the  Panama-California  Exposition  for  money  furnished  by  it  to 
the  Panama-California  Exposition  Commissioners  to  complete 
the   California   State    Building  at    said   Exposition. 

S.  B.  1061.  Chandler.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  com- 
pletion of  the  petroleum  experimental  station  at  the  Panama- 
Pacific  International  Exposition. 

EDUCATIONAL. 
California   Polytechnic  School. 

A.  B.  152.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $33,000.00  to  provide  a 
permanent  water  supply  for  the  California  Polytechnic   School. 

S.    B.   168.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   152.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  153.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $5000.00  for  the  purchase 
of  live  stock  and  poultry  at  the  California  Polytechnic  School. 

S.   B.   169.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.    153.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  154.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $45,000.00  for  building  a 
horse  barn,  a  hay  barn,  hog  barn,  dairy  barn,  green-houses, 
and  poultry  houses,  and  other  farm  buildings  at  the  Califor- 
nia   Polytechnic    School. 

S.   B.   175.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.    154.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  155.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $6000.00  for  the  purchase 
of_  farm  machinery  and  implements  at  the  California  Poly- 
technic   School. 

S.   B.   171.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   155.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  156.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $8000.00  for  the  estab- 
lishment and  maintenance  of  a  normal  and  a  business  course 
at   the   California  Polytechnic   School. 

S.   B.   172.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   156.     Rigdon. 

A.    B.    157.      Rigdon.      Appropriating    $15,000.00    for    the    pur- 


138  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

chase  of  equipment  for  shops,  power  plant,  and  laboratories 
at    the    California    Polytechnic    School. 

S.   B.   166.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   157.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  158.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $15,000.00  for  repairs 
and  improvements  to  buildings  and  equipment  at  the  Cali- 
fornia  Polytechnic    School. 

S.   B.   167.     Campbell.     Identical  with   A.   B.    158.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  159.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $10,000.00  for  the  build- 
ing and  equipment  of  a  carpenter  shop  at  the  California 
Polytechnic    School. 

■S.   B.   170.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   159.     Rigdon. 

A.  B.  160.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $15,000.00  for  the  build- 
ing and  equipping  of  an  armory,  gymnasium,  assembly  hall 
and   ball  ground   at   the   California  Polytechnic   School. 

S.  B.   173.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   160.     Rigdon. 

State    Normal    Schools. 
Chico. 

S.  B.  358.  Duncan.  Appropriating  $5600  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements to  the  Chico  State  Normal  School. 

A.  B.  93.  Canepa.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  constructing  a 
hospital  building  on  site  near  the  ferry  building  in  the  City 
and  County  of  San  Francisco;  arranging  for  its  upkeep  by  said 
city   and    county. 

A.  B.  94.  Canepa.  Appropriating  $30,000  for  building  and 
furnishing  an  observatory  in  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco;  arranging  for  its  upkeep  by  said  city  and  county. 

Fresno. 

S.  B.  135.  Chandler.  Appropriating  $20,000  to  pay  the  ex- 
penses of  furnishing  and  equipping  a  new  normal  school  build- 
ing  at   the    Fresno    State   Normal    School. 

S.  B.  136.  Chandler.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  improving  the 
grounds  at   the   Fresno   State   Normal   School. 

Humboldt   (Eureka). 

S.  B.  113.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $112,000  for  the  construc- 
tion and  equipment  of  buildings  on  the  property  of  Humboldt 
State  Normal  School. 

A.   B.   1276.     Quinn.     Identical  with   S.   B.   113.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  114.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  equipment 
and  furnishing  of  buildings  at  Humboldt  State  Normal  School. 

A.   B.   1273.     Quinn.     Identical  with   S,   B.   114.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  115.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $4720  for  the  construction 
of  temporary  buildings  at  Humboldt   State  Normal   School. 

A.  B.   1275.     Quinn.     Identical  with  S.   B.   115.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  116.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $1500  for  moving  tempo- 
rary buildings  at  Humboldt  State  Normal  School. 


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A.   B.   1277.     Quinn.     Identical  with  S.   B.   116.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  117.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $2000  for  clearing  the  site 
for  erecting  buildings  on  the  property  of  Humboldt  State 
Normal    School. 

A.    B.    1274.     Quinn.     Identical   with   S.    B.    117.     Kehoe. 

Los   Angeles. 

S.  B.  369.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $9600  to  pay  additional 
salaries  at  the  Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School  for  the  sixty- 
sixth  fiscal  year.  .  -   -     - 

A.  B.   473.     Wright.  .  Identical  with  S.  B.  369.     Benedict. 
..S.   B.   370.    Benedict.    Appropriating  $8000  for  additional  slip* 
port   at   the   Los   Angeles   State   Normal   School   for   the   sixty- 
sixth  fiscal  year. 

A.   B.   472.     Wright,/    Identical  with   S.   B.    370.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  371.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $8500  to  complete  and 
furnish  the  Los  Angeles  Normal  School  buildings. 

S.  B.  372.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $5500  to  purchase  addi- 
tional equipment  for  the  industrial  training  departments  of  the 
Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School. 

S.    B.    373.     Benedict.     Appropriating    $2500    to    construct    an 
:  addition   to    the   manual   training   building   of   the   Los   Angeles 
State  Normal  School. 

S.  B.  374.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $18,000  to  pay  the  ex- 
penses of  street  improvements  and"  sewer  assessments  fronting 
the  property  of  the  Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School  in  the 
(City  of  Los  Angeles. 

S.  B.  375.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $6000  for  improvement  to 
:grounds   at   the  Los  Angeles   State   Normal   School. 

A.  B.  1430.  Fish.  Appropriating  $1000  to  pay  the  claim  of 
rthe  Consolidated  Construction  Company  against  the  State  of 
'California  for  sewer  assessment  against  the  property  of  the 
State  Normal  School  at  Los  Angeles. 

San   Diego. 

A.  B.  443.  Conrad.  Appropriating  $14,000  for  repairs  and 
improvements  at  the  San  Diego   State  Normal   School. 

S.  B.  389.  Luce.  Appropriating  $1000  for  furniture  and 
equipment  at  the  San  Diego  Normal  School. 

A,  B.  442.  Conrad.  Appropriating  money  for  furniture  and 
equipment  at  the   San  Diego  State  Normal  School. 

S.  B.  390.  Luce.  Appropriating  $7000  for  improvement  of 
grounds  at  the  San  Diego  State  Normal  School. 

A.  B.  441.  Conrad.  Appropriating  money  for  improvement 
of  grounds  at  the  San  Diego  State  Normal- School. 

S.  B.  880.  Luce.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  purchase  of 
land  adjoining  the  grounds  of  the  San  Diego  State  Normal 
School. 


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S.  B.  388.  Luce.  Appropriating-  $14,000  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  San  Diego  State  Normal  School. 

A.  B.  1097.  Conrad.  Appropriating  money  to  purchase  land 
for  the  use  of  the  San  Diego  State  Normal  School  in  the  city 
of   San   Diego. 

A.  B.  1098.  Conrad.  Appropriating  $20,000.00  to  pay  the 
expenses  of  street  •improvements  fronting  the  property  of  the 
San   Diego   State   Normal  School  in   the  city  of   San  Diego. 

San   Francisco. 

S.  B.  359.  Gerdes.  Appropriating  $7500  for  remodeling  the 
training  school  building  at  the  San  Francisco  State  Normal 
School. 

S.  B.  360.  Gerdes.  Appropriating  $1000  for  repairs  and  fur- 
nishings at  the  San  Francisco  State  Normal  School. 

San  Jose. 

S.  B.  292.  Benson.  Appropriating  $25,000  to  main- 
tain a  continuous  course  of  instruction  at  the  San  Jose  State 
Normal  "School. 

A.  B.  296.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.   292.     Benson. 

S.  B.  293.  Benson.  Appropriating  $20,000  to  construct  out- 
door Class  rooms  for  the  training  school  at  the  San  Jose  Nor- 
mal   School. 

S.  B.  444.  Benson.  Appropriating  $20,000  to  pay  the  ex- 
penses of  street  improvements  fronting  the  property  of  the 
San    Jose    State    Normal    School    in    the    city   of    San    Jose. 

A.  B.  504.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  444.     Benson. 

S.  3.  938.  Benson.  Appropriating  money  to  construct  an 
assembly  hall  at  the  San  Jose   State  Normal  School. 

A.  B.  1009.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  938.    Benson. 

Santa   Barbara   (Manual  Arts). 

S.  B.  184.  Mott.  Appropriating  $5000  for  repairs  and  altera- 
tions to  main  buildings,  Santa  Barbara  State  Normal  School 
of  Manual  Arts  and   Home  Economics. 

A.  B.   173.     Kramer.     Identical  with  S.   B.   184.     Mott. 

S.  B.  185.  Mott.  Appropriating  $6500  to  pay  the  expense  of 
improving  the  grounds  of  the  Santa  Barbara  State  Normal 
School  of  Manual  Arts  and  Home  Economics,  including  grad- 
ing, installation  of  sewer,   gas  and  water  mains  and  conduits. 

A.   B.   174.     Kramer.     Identical  with   S.   B.   185.     Mott. 

S.  B.  214.  "Mott.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  improvement 
and  equipment  of  the  Santa  Barbara  State  Normal  School  of 
Manual  Arts  and  Home  Economics. 

A.  B.   215.     Kramer.     Identical  with  S.  B.   214.     Mott. 

S.  B.  213.     Mott.     Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  construction 


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of  a   machinery   building   at   the   Santa   Barbara    State   Normal 
School  of  Manual  Arts  and  Home  Economics. 
A.   B.   213.     Kramer.     Identical  with  S.   B.   213.     Mott. 

University  of  California. 

S.  B.  299.  Breed.  Appropriating  $62,000  for  the  use  and 
benefit  of  the  University  .  of  California,  and  specifying  the 
duties  of  the  Controller  and  Treasurer  of  the  State  in  relation 
thereto. 

A.  B.  337.     Young.     Identical  with  S.  B.  299.     Breed. 

S.  B.  275.  Anderson.  Appropriating  $4,000  for  the  construc- 
tion of  buildings  on  the  lands  of  the  agricultural  experiment 
station  of  the  University  of  California  in  the  County  of  Im- 
perial. 

A.   B.   268.     Wills.     Identical  with   S.   B.    275.     Anderson. 

S.  B.  288.  Duncan.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the 
construction  of  a  building  to  be  known  as  the  "Farm  Ma- 
chinery Building"  at  the  Farm  and  Agricultural  School  of  the 
University   of   California   at    Davis. 

A.   B.    353.      Tabler.     Identical   with   S.    B.   288.      Duncan. 

S.  B.  289.  Duncan.  Appropriating  $40,000  for  the  construc- 
tion and  equipment  of  buildings  at  the  Farm  and  Agricultural 
School   of   the   University   of   California   at   Davis. 

A.   B.   352.     Tabler.     Identical  with   S.   B.   289.     Duncan. 

S.  B.  290.  Duncan.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  the  construc- 
tion and  equipment  of  creamery  and  abbatoir  buildings  at  the 
Farm  and  Agricultural  School  of  the  University  of  California 
at    Davis. 

A.  B.  396.     Tabler.     Identical  with  S.  B.  290.     Duncan. 

S.  B.  291.  Duncan.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  construc- 
tion of  a  building  to  be  known  as  the  "Live  Stock  Judging 
Room"  at  the  Farm  and  Agricultural  School  of  the  University 
of    California    at    Davis. 

A.   B.   397.     Tabler.     Identical  with  S.  B.  291.     Duncan. 

S.  B.  272.  Jones.  Appropriating  $35,000  for  the  construction 
of  buildings  and  the  purchase  and  installation  of  machinery 
and  equipment  for  use  by  the  Lick  Observatory  of  the  Uni- 
versity  of   California. 

A.   B.   295.     Wright.     Identical  with  S.   B.   272.     Jones. 

S.  B.  265.  King.  Appropriating  $40,000  for  the  support  and 
maintenance  of  university  extension  work  by  the  University 
of   California. 

A.   B.   320.     McKnight.     Identical  with   S.   B.   265.     King. 

S.  B.  754.  Flint.  Appropriating  $65,000  for  University  Ex- 
tension work  for  the  University  of  California. 

A.  B.  573.  Shartel.  Appropriating  money  for  University  Ex- 
tension work  for  the  University  of  California. 

A.    B.    319.     McKnight.      Appropriating   $25,000    for   additions 


142  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

and  improvements  to  the  buildings  of  the  Medical  School  of 
the  University  Of  California  at  Los  Angeles  and  the  equip- 
ment  thereof. 

S.  B.  327.    Benedict.     Identical  with  A.  B.  319.    McKnight. 

S.  B.  326.  Benedict.  Appropriating  $13,500  for  the  equip- 
ment of  the  buildings  of  the  Medical  School  of  the  University 
of  California  at  Los  Angeles,  California. 

S.  B.  307.  Finn.  Appropriating  $200,000  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University 
of  California  in  the   City  and  County  of  San  Francisco. 

A.  B.  372.     Prendergast.     Indentical  with  S.   B.  307.    Finn. 

A.  B.  1099.  Conrad.  Appropriating  money  for  the  Univer- 
sity of  California  for  the  purpose  of  investigating  the  treat- 
ment of  nickel  ores. 

S,  B.  1060.  Chandler.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  transfer 
to  the  University  of  California  of  the  petroleum  experimental 
station  at  the  Panama -Pacific  International  Exposition. 

S.  B.  300.  Breed.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act,  adopted 
as  an  initiative  measure  by  vote  of  the  people  November  3, 
1914,  authorizing  the  construction  of  the  unfinished  portion 
of  the  library  building  of  the  University  of  California,  and 
the  construction  of  a  building  for  general  use  as  a  recitation 
building,  of  a  building  for  the  use  of  the  College  of  Agricul- 
ture, and  of  a  building  for  the  use  of  the  College  of  Natural 
Sciences  as  a  chemistry  building,  upon  the  grounds  of  said 
University  of  California  at  Berkeley;  providing  for  the  issu- 
ance and  sale  of  State  bonds  to  meet  the  cost  of  the  fore- 
going purposes;  and  providing  the  necessary  moneys  for  the 
payment  of  the  principal  and  interest  to  become  due  on  said 
bonds. 

A.  B.  326.     Satterwhite.     Identical  with  S.  B.  300.     Breed. 

S.  B.  298.  Breed.  Amending  Sections  1  and  4  of  an  Act, 
approved  April  25,  1911,  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
Subdivision  (e)  of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  State  of  California  as  the  said  article  was  amended 
on  the  eighth  day  of  'November  in  the  year  one  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  ten,  in  so  far  as  the  same  relates  to  the  State 
University;  and  also  to  provide  for  the  permanent  support 
and  improvement  of  the  University  of  California;  and  to  that 
end  making  a  continuing  appropriation  and  creating  an  annual 
fund  therefor;  and  repealing  an  Act,  approved  March  20,  1909, 
to  provide  for  the  permanent  support  and  improvement  of 
the  L^niversity  of  California  by  the  levy  of  a  rate  of  taxation 
and  the  creation  of  a  fund  therefor,  and  to  repeal  an  Act 
approved  February  14,  1887,  to  provide  for  the  permanent 
support  and  improvement  of  the  University  of  California  by 
the  levy  of  a  rate  of  taxation  and  the  creation  of  a  fund 
therefor,    and    also    to    repeal    an    Act    approved    February    27, 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  143 

1897,  to  provide  additional  support  and  maintenance,  and  for 
the  acquisition  of  necessary  property  and  improvements  of 
the  University  of  California  by  the  levy  of  a  rate  of  taxation, 
and  the  creation  of  a  fund  therefor. 

A.  B.  336.     Young.     Identical  with  S.  B.  298.     Breed. 

FREE    TEXT     BOOKS. 

S.  B.  426.  Thompson.  Appropriating  $500,000  to  pay  the 
cost  of  printing,  publishing  and  distributing  State  text  books 
free  to  the  school  children  of  the  State  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  the  Constitution. 

A.  B.   407.     Avey.     Identical  with  S.   B.    426.     Thompson. 

HIGHWAYS. 

S.  B.  23.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  loca- 
tion, survey,  and  construction  of  a  proposed  State  road  from 
the  junction  of  the  counties  of  San  Joaquin,  Calaveras,  and 
Amador   to   Jackson,   Amador  County. 

A.   B.   97.     Kerr„     Identical  with   S.   B.    23.      Stuckenbruck. 

A.  B.  198.  Kerr.  Establishing  a  state  highway  to  run 
through  portions  of  the  counties  of  Amador  and  Calaveras, 
to  define  its  course,  to  provide  for  its  supervision,  construction, 
repair   and    maintenance    and    appropriating    $20,000    therefor. 

A.  B.  25.  Rutherford.  Approprating  $75,000  for  the  location, 
survey  and  construction  of  a  highway  to  connect  the  State  of 
California  with  the  State  of  Nevada. 

A.  B.  163.  Brown,  H.  W.  Providing  for  locating,  surveying 
and  maintaining  a  highway  from  Pescadero  in  the  county  of 
San  Mateo  to  the  California  Redwood  Park  in  Santa  Cruz 
County,    and    appropriating    $30,000.00    therefor. 

S.  B.  1111.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.  B.     163.     Brown. 

S.  B.  150.  Jones.  Providing  for  a  sprinkling  system  for  the 
State  highway  extending  from  Saratoga  Gap  into  and  through 
California    Redwood    Park,    and   appropriating    $15,000    therefor. 

A.    B.    247.     McPherson.     Identical   with   S.    B.    150.     Jones. 

A.   B.   260.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.  B.   150.     Jones. 

S.  B.  161.  King.  Providing  for  the  building  of  a  bridge 
across  the  Colorado  river  at  Needles,  California,  and  making 
an   appropriation   therefor. 

A.   B.   170.     Phelps.     Identical  with  S.   B.   161.     King. 

S.  B.  351.  Luce.  Appropriating  $200,000  to  construct  a  high- 
way between  El  Centro,  California,  and  a  point  on  the  Cali- 
fornia State  line  directly  opposite  Yuma,   Arizona. 

A.  B.  344.     Wills.     Identical  with  S.  B.   351.    Luce. 

S.  B.  617.  King.  Providing  for  the  location  and  construc- 
tion of  a  State  highway  in  Imperial  county,  and  making  ap- 
propriation  therefor. 

A.  B.  676.     Avey.     Indentical  with  S.  B.  617.     King. 


144  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

S.  B.  687.  Mott.  To  provide  for  the  survey,  location  and 
estimate  of  cost  of  a  State  highway  from  a  point  on  the  pres- 
ent located  California  State  highway  in  Kern  county,  Cali- 
fornia, south  of  Bakersfield,  southerly  to  the  town  of  Nord- 
hoff,  Ventura  county,  and  appropriating  $8000  therefor. 

A.  B.  736.  Edwards.  To  provide  for  the  survey,  location 
and  estimate  of  cost  of  a  State  highway  from  a  point  on  the 
present  located  California  State  highway  in  Kern  County, 
California,  south  of  Bakersfield,  southerly  to  the  town  of 
Nordhoff,  Ventura  County,  and  appropriating  $8000  therefor. 

A.  B.  1272.  Rigdon.  Appropriating  $6800  for  the  survey  and 
location  of  a  highway  between  McKittrick  in  Kern  County  and 
Santa  Margarita  in  the  County  of  San  Luis  Obispo,  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  40.  Cary.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  work  on  the 
State  Highway  known  as  Kings  River  Canyon  Road,  to  au- 
thorize changes  in  the  location  of  said  road,  and  to  repeal 
all   Acts  and   parts   of   Acts   in   conflict   herewith. 

S.  B.  548.  Cogswell.  To  provide  for  th*e  location,  survey 
and  construction  of  a  proposed  highway  to  connect  the  road 
system  of  Los  Angeles  county  in  the  vicinity  of  Azusa  with 
the  road  system  of  Antelope  Valley  in  the  vicinity  of  Palm- 
dale,    and   appropriating   $50,000   therefor. 

A.    B.    690.      Lostutter.      Identical   with    S.    B.    548.      Cogswell. 

A.  B.  634.  Chamberlin.  Appropriating  $100,000  in  aid  of  the 
location,  survey  and  construction  of  a  proposed  highway  to 
connect  the  road  system  of  Los  Angeles  County  within  the 
vicinity  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  with  the  road  system  within 
Antelope  Valley,  through  Mint  Canyon,  Arroyo  Seco  Canyon, 
or  San  Gabriel  Canyon  in  the  Angeles  National  Forest,  and 
terminating  at   or  near  Palmdale. 

A.  B.  781.  Wishard.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  the  survey 
and  construction  of  a  proposed  highway  connecting  Lancaster 
in  Los  Angeles  county  and  Mojave  in  Kern  county  along  the 
county  road  of  the  respective  counties. 

A.  B.  1399.  Shartel.  Providing  for  an  appropriation  of  $20,000 
for  the  location,  survey  and  construction  of  a  highway  to  lead 
from  Surprise  Valley,  in  Modoc  county,  to  the  Nevada  State 
line. 

A.  B.  1022.  Browne.  To  provide  for  the  survey  and  con- 
struction of  a  State  highway  from  Bridgeport,  county  seat  of 
Mono  County,  to  Independence,  county  seat  of  Inyo  County, 
and   making  an   appropriation   therefor. 

S.  B.  1033.  Carr.  Appropriating  $7500  for  the  location  and 
survey  of  a  State  highway,  to  be  known  as  the  Pasadena 
State   Highway. 

A.  B.  1113.     Fish.     Appropriating  money  for  the  location  and 


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survey  of  a  State  highway,  to  be  known  as  the  Pasadena  State 
Highway. 

A.  B.  528.  Browne.  Appropriating  money  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  Sonora  and  Mono  State  highway. 

S.  B.  937.  Carr.  Appropriating  money  for  the  construction 
of  a  trail  in  the  Sierra  Nevada  Mountains  to  be  known  as  the 
"John  Muir  Trail." 

A.  B.  1035.     Scott,  F.  C.  Identical  with  S.  B.  937.     Carr. 

S.  B.  894.  Birdsall.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  continu- 
ation of  the  location,  survey  and  construction  of  a  State  high- 
way from  Goodyear  Bar,  Sierra  County,  California,  in  a  west- 
erly direction   to  Indian   Valley,    California. 

S.  B.  592.  Shearer.  Appropriating  $7500  for  the  purpose 
of  making  a  survey  for  a  State  highway  from  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  State  highway  and  the  Klamath  River  road  in 
Siskiyou  county  to  the  terminus  of  the  Humboldt  county  road 
at  Orleans  at  the  mouth  of  the  Redwood  river. 

A.  B.  302.  Ellis.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  purchase  of 
the   Great   Sierra   Wagon   Road. 

S.  B.  331.  Birdsall.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  location, 
survey  and  construction  of  a  State  highway  from  Tahoe  City, 
Placer  County,  along  the  northern  boundary  of  Lake  Tahoe  to 
western  boundary  of  the  State  of  Nevada  at  Crystal  Bay  in 
Placer  County. 

S.  B.  44.  Birdsall.  Appropriating  $14,000  for  the  purpose  of 
purchasing  additional  rights  of  way,  land  and  trees  on  ana 
along  the  course  of  the  Lake  Tahoe  wagon  roaa. 

A.    B.    66.      Kerr.      Identical   with    S.    B.    44.      Birdsall. 

A.  B.  1038.  Scott,  F.  C.  Providing  for  the  location,  survey 
and  construction  of  a  proposed  highway  to  connect  the  San 
Joaquin  Valley  State  Highway  trunk  line  in  Tulare  County 
with  the  Coast  State  Highway  trunk  line  in  Monterey  County 
through  Coalinga  Pass,  and  appropriating  $200,000  therefor. 

S.   B.   952.     Irwin.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1038.      Scott. 

A.  B.  527.  Browne.  Declaring  the  public  highway  extending 
from  Long  Barn  in  Tuolumne  County  to  the  eastern  boundary 
of  the  City  of  Sonora  to  be  a  State  highway,  and  appropriating 
$15,000    for   the    improvement    thereof. 

A.  B.  1365.  Quinn.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  construc- 
tion of  the  western  extension  of  the  Trinity-Humboldt  State 
road. 

S.  B.  286.  Kehoe.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  the  construc- 
tion and  completion  of  a  State  highway  connecting  the  coun- 
ties of  Trinity,  Shasta  and  Humboldt  with  the  road  system 
of   Tehama   county. 

A.  B.  309.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  286.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  46.  Birdsall.  Providing  for  the  survey,  location  and 
construction    of   a    State    bridle    trail    from    Meyers    Station    In 


146  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

El  D.orado  County,  thence  to  or  near  the  Hetch  Hetchy  Val- 
ley, thence  to  Yosemite  Valley,  and  appropriating  $3000  there- 
for. 

S.  B.  47.  Birdsall.  Declaring  the  county  road  extending 
from  Auburn,  State  of  California,  in  an  easterly  direction  to 
a  point  near  Emigrant  Gap,  a  State  highway,  and  appropriat- 
ing $20,000   for  the   improvement   thereof. 

S.  B.  48.  Birdsall.  Declaring  the  wagon  road  from  Mc- 
Kinney's    to    the   west   end   of   Donner  Lake   a    State   highway. 

S.  B.  96.  Purkitt.  Establishing  the  Yolo  and  Lake  High- 
way; to  define  its  course;  to  provide  for  its  survey  and  con- 
struction;   and    appropriating    $50,000    therefor. 

A.    B.    80.      Tabler.      Identical   with    S.    B.    96.      Purkitt. 

S.  B.  144.  Benson.  Providing  for  the  survey  and  construc- 
tion of  a  State  highway  through  the  Pacheco  Pass  connecting 
the  State  highway  in  Santa  Clara  County  at  Gilroy  with  the 
State  highway  in  Madera  County  at  or  near  Califa,  and  appro- 
priating  $150,000  therefor. 

A.   B.   116.     McPherson.     Identical  with  S.   B.   144.     Benson. 

S.   B.   1019.     Cogswell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1019.     Mouser. 

A.  B.  1271.  Rigdon.  Providing  for  the  location,  survey  and 
construction  of  a  proposed  highway  from  Bakersfield  in  Kern 
County  by  the  most  direct  and  feasible  route  by  the  Lost 
Hills  through  the  Cholame  Pass  to  a  point  on  the  State  high- 
way in  the  County  of  S?an  Luis  Obispo,  and  also  for  the  loca- 
tion, survey  and  construction  of  a  lateral  State  highway  start- 
ing from  Hanford  in  Kings  County  and  running  by  the  most 
direct  and  feasible  route  to  connect  with  the  highway  above 
described  at  a  convenient  point  near  the  easterly  entrance  to 
the   Cholame   Pass,    and   appropriating   $200,000   therefor. 

HISTORIC     LANDMARKS. 

S.  B.  88.  Slater.  Appropriating  $2000  for  the  restoration 
and  rebuilding  of  the  old  Greek  Chapel  at  Fort  Ross, 
Sonoma    County,    California. 

A.  B.  89.  Boyce.  Appropriating  $5000  for  repairing  and  im- 
proving  custom   house   at   Monterey. 

S.   B.   165.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   89.     Boyce. 

S.  B.  545.  Cogswell.  To  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a 
board  of  Pio  Pico  mansion  trustees  and  for  the  acquisition 
of  the  Pio  Pico  mansion  property;  and  making  an  appropria- 
tion  for   the  preservation  and  protection   of  said   property. 

A.  B.  1431.  Boyce.  Appropriating  $2000  for  repairing  and 
improving   old  theatre  property  at  Monterey. 

MONUMENTS. 

S.  B.  63.  Finn.  Provides  for  the  erection  of  a  memorial 
monument     to    Abraham    Lincoln,     appointing    a    commission 


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therefor  and  appropriating  $10,000  to  carry  this  Act  into 
effect. 

A.  B.  95.  Godsil.  Providing  for  the  erection  of  a  memorial 
monument  to  George  Washington;  appointing  a  commission 
therefor  and  appropriating  $20,000  to  carry  this  Act  into  effect. 

A.  B.  519.  Rominger.  To  provide  for  the  erection  of  a 
memorial  monument  at  Long  Beach  to  deceased  members  of 
the  G.  A.  R.;  appointing  a  commission  therefor;  and  appro- 
priating $1000  to  carry  this  Act  into  effect. 

.  A.  B.  1054.  Canepa.  To  provide  for  the  erection  of  a  mem- 
orial monument  to  Christopher  Columbus  and  George  Wash- 
ington, appointing  a  commission  therefor,  and  appropriating 
money   to   carry   this  Act  into   effect. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

S.  B.  64.  Finn.  Providing  that  one-half  of'  the  cost  and 
expense  of  maintenance  of  the  salaries  of  the  officers,  fire- 
men and  crew  of  the  fire  boats  "David  Scannell"  and  "Dennis 
Sullivan"  shall  be  borne  and  paid  by  the  State  of  California 
out  of  the  general  fund. 

A.   B.   122.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.  B.   64.     Finn. 

A.  B.  113.  Avey.  Providing  for  the  reforestation,  the  cut- 
ting of  fire  lanes  and  fire  trails  on  the  Angeles  National 
Forest,    and   appropriating    $5000.00    therefor. 

A.  B.  469.  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  to  supple- 
ment the  appropriation  for  the  emergency  fund  for  the  sixty- 
sixth  fiscal  year. 

A.  B.  477.  Meek.  Appropriating  $25,000  to  aid  the  State 
Board  of  Equalization  in  the  appraisement  of  property  and  the 
collection  of  data  relating  to  assessments  of  property  and  taxes 
due  thereon. 

A.  B.  454.  Rodgers.  Appropriating  $272,760  to  pay  for  the 
services  rendered  the  State  of  California  by  members  of  the 
boards  of  election  of  each  of  the  election  precincts  of  the  State 
at  the  general  State  election  held  on  November  3,   1914. 

S.  B.  525.  Shearer.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  investiga- 
tion of  agricultural  problems  and  conditions  in  Siskiyou  County, 
contingent  upon  the  appropriation  by  the  United  States  of 
America  of  the  like,  or  greater  sum  for  the  same  purpose. 

A.  B.  615.  Godsil.  Appropriating  $11,433.82  out  of  the  San 
Francisco  Harbor  Improvement.  Fund  in  the  State  Treasury  to 
pay  the  assessment  levied  for  said  amount  on  property  belong- 
ing to  the  State  of  California  by  the  City  and  County  of*  San 
Francisco  for  a  local  improvement. 

S.   B.   615.     Gerdes.     Identical  with  A.   B.   615.     Godsil. 

A.  B.  585.  Lostutter.  To  provide  for  the  fighting  of  forest 
firee  in  the  San  Antonio  Canyon  in  the  San  Gabriel  Mountains, 
California,    and   appropriating   $2500    therefor. 


148  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.  B.  60$,  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating-  money  to  meet 
additional  expense  for  the  support  of  orphans,  half-orphans 
and  abandoned  children  for  the  sixty-fifth  and  sixty-sixth 
fiscal   years. 

S.  B.  702.  King.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  conducting  of 
experiments  in  the  manufacture  of  by-products  from  citrus 
fruits  at  Citrus  Experiment  Station  at  Riverside,   California. 

A.  B.  680.  Pettis  (by  request).  Providing  for  the  creation 
and  management  of  the  Branscomb  Redwood  Park,  appro- 
priating $75,000  therefor,  and  creating  a  board  of  five  com- 
missioners with  the  power  to  make  purchases  and  manage 
said   Branscomb   Redwood   Park. 

A.  B.  734.  Lost  utter.  Appropriating  money  for  the  flood 
control  and  conservation  of  the  waters  of  the  San  Antonio 
wash,  along  the  boundary  line  between  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Bernardino    counties. 

S.  B.  1040.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  pay  the  pre- 
mium or  charge  on  official  bonds  of  State  officers  as  provided 
for  in  an  Act,  approved  March  25,  1903,  to  provide  for  the 
payment  by  the  State  or  counties,  or  cities,  or  cities  and 
counties,  of  the  premium  or  charge  on  official  bonds  wheni 
given  by   surety   companies. 

S.  B.  1079.  Wolfe.  Appropriating  $30,0U0  for  building  and 
furnishing  an  observatory  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Fran- 
cisco;  arranging  for  its  upkeep  by  said  City  and  county. 

A.  B.  1265.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1090.     Anderson. 

S.  B.  1086.  Jones.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the  expenses 
of  the  Recreational  Inquiry  Committee  in  the  preparation  and 
distribution   of  the   report   of  said   committee. 

S.  B.  1090.  Anderson.  Appropriating  $40,000  to  defray  the 
expenses  during  the  sixty-seventh  and  sixty-eighth  fiscal  years 
of  the  Commission  of  Immigration  and  Housing  of  California 
in  conducting  inspections  of  housing  conditions  and  enforcng 
the   State    housing  laws. 

S.  B.  1151.  Luce.  Appropriating  $25,000  to  repay  subscribers 
to  the  fund  for  constructing  the  bridge  across  the  Colorado 
River  at  Yuma,   Arizona. 

S.  B.  1189.  Cogswell.  To  provide  for  the  purchase  of  a 
portrait  of  former  Lieutenant  Governor  A.  J.  Wallace,  and 
appropriating  $500  therefor. 

A.  B.  1259.  Chenoweth.  Appropriating  $2500  for  the  com- 
pletion of  the  conservatory  and  propagating  plant  on  the  State 
Capitol  grounds  at  Sacramento. 

A.  B.  1400.  Avey.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  purpose 
of  transporting  water  from  the  Highgrove  well  to  the  property 
of   the   Citrus  Experimental   Station  at   Riverside. 

A.  B.  1401.  Avey.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  construction 
of  buildings  for  the  Citrus  Experimental  Station  at  Riverside.  ; 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  149 

A.  B.  1402.  Avey.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  planting 
and  transplanting  of  nursery  stock  and  fruit  trees  on  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Citrus  Experimental   Station  at  Riverside. 

A.  B.  1403.  Avey.  Appropriating  $5000  to  construct  roads 
on  State  property  of  the  Citrus  Experimental  Station  at  River- 
side. 

A.  B.  1404.  Avey.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  construction 
of  reservoirs  on  the  property  of  the  Citrus  Experimental  Sta- 
tion at  Riverside. 

A.  B.  1444.  Scott,  F.  C  For  the  establishment  of  a  Mb 
hatchery  at  Three  Rivers,  Tulare  County,  and  appropriating 
$10,000  therefor. 

S.  B.  149.  Jones.  Providing  for  the  construction  or  a  build- 
ing to  be  used  as  a  barn  and  garage  in  California  Redwood 
Park,   and  appropriating  $5000   therefor. 

A.    B.    248.     McPherson.     Identical   with    S.    B.    149.     Jones. 

A.   B.   261.     Hayes.     Identical  with   S.   B.   149.     Jones. 

A.  B.  93.  Canepa.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  constructing 
a  hospital  building  on  site  near  the  ferry  building,  in  the  City 
and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  arranging  for  its  upkeep 
by  said  city  and  county. 

S.   B.   675.     Crowley.     Identical  with  A.   B.   93.     Canepa. 

NATIONAL    GUARD. 

A.  B.  596.  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating  $10,000  to  defray 
the  expenses,  during  the  sixty-seventh  and  sixty-eighth  fiscal 
years,  of  organizing,  controlling,  equipping,  instructing  and 
maintaining  high  school  cadet  companies  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  for  promoting  rifle  practice  in  said  companies  and 
to  further  carry  out  the  purposes  of  an  Act  approved  April 
5,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  control  and  equipment 
of  high  school  cadet  companies,  and  for  the  promotion  of  rifle 
practice   therein,   and  appropriating  the  sum  of  $5000  therefor. 

S.  B.  773.  Scott.  Making  available  and  reappropriating 
certain  moneys  for  the  expenses  of  the  National  Guard  in 
case  of  insurrection,  invasion,  tumult,  riot  or  imminent  dan- 
ger thereof. 

A.   B.   833.     Edwards.     Identical  with   g.   B.   773.     Scott. 

S.  B.  777.  Scott.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  the  subsistence, 
supplies,  transportation  and  other  expenses  incidental  to  the 
encampment  of  the  troops  of  the  National  Guard  of  California, 
upon  the  occasion  of  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Ex- 
position. 

A.  B.  837.     Edwards.     Identical  with  S.  B.  111.     Scott. 

S.  B.  776.  Scott.  Appropriating  $3000  for  the  attendance 
of  certain  members  of  the  High  School  Cadets  organizations 
of  the  State  of  California  at  the  student  camp  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States,   to 


150  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 


be  held  in  the  State  of  California,  during  the  summer  of  1915. 

A.   B.   834.     Edwards.     Identical  with   S.   B.    776.     Scott. 

S.  B.  775.  Scott.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  entertainment 
©f  the  delegates  to  the  convention  of  the  National  Guard  Asso- 
ciation of  the  United  States,  at  its  meeting  in  the  city  of  San 
Francisco,   California,  during  the  year  1915. 

A.   B.   835.     Edwards.     Identical  with   S.   B.   775.     Scott. 

S.  B.  774.  Scott.  Appropriating  $5000  to  pay  the  expenses 
of  an  encampment  of  California  High  School  Cadets  in  the 
vicinity  of  San  Francisco  during  the  Panama-Pacific  Inter- 
national  Exposition. 

A.    B.   836.     Edwards.     Identical   with   S.    B.    774.      Scott. 
S.   B.  771.     Scott.     Appropriating  $12,000  for  the  purchase  of 
lands   in   Sacramento   county,    State   of  California,   for   the   use 
of    the    National    Guard    of    California,    for    target    and    range 
,  purposes. 

A.   B.   838.     Edwards.     Identical  with   S.  B.    771.     Scott. 

S.    B.    883.      Luce.      Appropriating    $2500  for    the   erection    of 

additional  buildings  for  the  use  of  the  Naval  Reserves  of 
San  Diego,   California. 

A.  B.   1032.     Conrad.     Identical  with  S.  B.  883.     Luce. 


RIVER    AND    HARBOR     IMPROVEMENTS. 

A.  B.  88.  Boyce.  Provides  for  the  accomplishment  of  the 
work  of  constructing  a  breakwater  in  '  Monterey  Bay,  Cali- 
fornia, as  recommended  in  the  report  of  the  chief  of  Engineers, 
United  States  army,  and  printed  in  a  document  of  the  United 
States  House  of  Representatives,  No.  1084,  61st  Congress,  3d 
session,  calling  for  an  expenditure  of  $600,000  and  appropriat- 
ing $200,000  for  such  work. 

S.   B.   174.     Campbell.     Identical  with  A.   B.    88.     Boyce. 

A.  B.  101.  Shartel.  Providing  for  removing  obstruction  in 
Pitt  river  above  the  mouth  of  Hat  creek  so  as  to  enable  salmon 
to  reach  the  spawning  grounds  of  the  upper  waters  of  said 
river  and  its  tributaries,  and  appropriating  $1000  therefor. 
,  A.  B.  565.  Manning.  Appropriating  money  to  meet  part  of 
the  expenses  in  maintaining  the  navigability  of  the  San  Rafael 
-deep  water   channel. 

A.  B.  1156.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  money  to  be  expended 
by  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Department  of  Engineering 
for  the  purpose  of  rectifying  and  improving  the  channels  of 
the  "Sacramento,  San  Joaquin  and  Feather  rivers  and  such 
other  waters  of  the  State  as  the  Department  of  Engineering 
may-determine ]  etc. 


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STATE     INSTITUTIONS. 
Agnews  State  Hospital. 

S.  B.  269.  Jones.  Appropriating  $45,000  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  a  cottage  for  male  patients  at  the  Agnews 
State   Hospital. 

A.   B.  258.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.   B.   269.     Jones. 

S.  B.  270.  Jones.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  purchase  of 
a  dairy  herd  for  the  Agnews  State  Hospital. 

A.   B.  £62.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.   B.   270.     Jones. 

S.  B.  £71.  Jones.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  construction 
of  dairy  buildings  and  equipment  at  the  Agnews  State  Hospital. 

A.   B.  259.     Hayes.     Identical  with  S.   B.   271.     Jones. 

S.  B.  1000.  Jones.  Appropriating  money  for  the  construc- 
tion of-  a  building  for  women  patients  at  the  Agnews  State 
Hospital. 

S.  B.  1001.  Jones.  Appropriating  money  for  the  construc- 
tion and  furnishing  of  a  building  for  tubercular  patients  at 
the  Agnews  State  Hospital. 

S.  B.  1002.  Jones.  Appropriating  money  for  the  purchase 
of  land  for  the  Agnews  State  Hospital. 

Adult    Blind,    Industrial    Home  for. 

S.  B.  464.  Breed.  Appropriating  $3000  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  'the  Industrial  Home  for  the-  Adult  Blind. 

S.  B.  465.  Breed.  Appropriating  $4000  for  furniture  for  the 
new  dormitory  building  at  the  Industrial  Home  for  the  Adult 
Blind. 

California    School    for    Deaf    and    Blind. 

S.  B.  466.  Breed.  Appropriating  $S550  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind. 

S.  B.  467.  Breed.  Appropriating  $12,500  to  install  new  electric 
wiring  in  the  institution  of  the  California  School  for  the  Deaf 
and  the  Blind. 

S.  B.  468.  Breed.  Appropriating  $1500  to  provide  the  manual 
arts  building  of  the  California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the 
Blind  with  fire  escape  equipment. 

S.  B.  469.  Breed.  Appropriating  $4000  to  develop  and  equip 
artesian  wells  and  to  connect  the  same  with  the  water  system 
of  the  California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind  at  the 
California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind. 

S.  B.  496.  Breed.  Appropriating  $4500  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the 
Blind. 

S.  B.  759.  Breed.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  the  construc- 
tion of  a  dormitory  building  at  the  California  School  for  the 
Deaf  and   the   Blind. 

Folsom    State    Hospital. 

S.  B.  253.  Crowley.  Appropriating  $30,300  to  complete, 
equip  and  furnish  the  Folsom  State  Hospital. 


152  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.  B.  235.  Pettis.  Appropriating  $30,000  to  complete,  equip 
and  furnish  the  Folsom   State  Hospital. 

Folsom  State  Prison. 

S.  B.  373.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $12,000  for  the  construction 
of  a  horse  barn  at  the  State  prison  at  Folsom. 

A.  B.   414.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.  B.  379.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  380.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $4000  for  furnishing  and 
decorating  the  warden's  residence  at  the  State  prison  at 
Folsom. 

A.  B.   415.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.  B.   380.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  381.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $2000  for  the  expense  of 
changing  from  coal  to  oil  burners  at  the  State  prison  at 
Folsom. 

A.  B.  418.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.  381.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  382.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $4500  for  the  purchase  of 
live  stock  for  the  State  prison  at  Folsom. 

A.  B.  419.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   382.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  383.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $31,000  for  reconstruction  of 
electrical  equipment  connected  with  the  power  house  at  the 
State  prison  at  Folsom. 

A.  B.  416.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.  B.   383.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  384.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  State  prison  at  Folsom. 

A.  B.   417.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   384.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  385.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $6000  for  the  purchase  and 
installation  of  refrigerating  plant  at  the  State  prison  at 
Folsom. 

A.  B.  412.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   385.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  386.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $1500  for  the  construction  of 
farm  buildings  at  the  State  prison  at  Folsom. 

A.  B.   411.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   386.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  387.  Cohn.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  expense  of  pur- 
chasing and  installing  new  bake  oven  at  the  State  prison  at 
Folsom. 

A.  B.  413.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with  S.   B.   387.     Cohn. 

A.  B.  852.  Chenoweth.  Appropriating  $15,000.00  for  the  pur- 
chase  of  additional  land   for   the  Folsom   State  Prison. 

Norwalk  State   Hospital. 

S.  B.  394.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  and  erection  of  additional  buildings  at  the 
State  Hospital  at  Norwalk,  Los  Angeles  County,   California. 

Mendocino    State    Hospital. 

S.  B.  187.  Purkitt.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  building,  fur- 
nishing and  equipping  a  receiving  building  at  Mendocino  State 
Hospital. 

A.  B.   165.     Pettis.     Identical  with  •  S.   B.   187.     Purkitt. 


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A.  B.  280.  Pettis.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  replace- 
ment of  the  main  pipe  line  and  connections  thereto  at  the 
Mendocino    State    Hospital. 

S.   B.   295.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.   B.   280.     Pettis. 

A.  B.  281.  Pettis.  Appropriating  $5000  for  plumbing  repairs 
at  the  Mendocino  State  Hospital. 

S.   B.   296.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.   B.   281.     Pettis. 

A.  B.  282.  Pettis.  Appropriating  $7500  for  the  purchase  and 
installation  of  three  electric  elevators  at  the  Mendocino  State 
Hospital. 

S.   B.   294.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.   B.   282.     Pettis. 

Napa    State    Hospital. 

S.  B.  246.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  a  cottage  for  men  patients  at  the  Napa  State 
Hospital. 

A.   B.   479.     Widenmann.     Identical  with   S.   B.   246.     Rush. 

S.  B.  247.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  a  cottage  for  women  patients  at  the  Napa 
State  Hospital. 

A.   B.   478.     Widenmann.     Identical  with   S.   B.   247.     Rush. 

S.  B.  248.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  construction 
and  equipment  of  a  building  or  buildings  as  a  home  for  work- 
ingmen  on  what  is  known  as  the  Smith-Brown  ranch  belonging 
to  the  Napa  State  Hospital. 

A.   B.    480.     Widenmann.     Identical  with   S.   B.   248.     Rush. 

S.  B.  249.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  remodeling 
South  P  Cottage  at   the  Napa  State   Hospital. 

A.   B.   482.     Widenmann.     Identical  with  S.   B.   249.     Rush. 

S.  B.  250.  Rush.  Appropriating  $7500  for  the  purchase  of 
additional  land   at  the   Napa   State  Hospital. 

A.   B.   481.     Widenmann.      Identical  with   S.   B.   250.     Rush. 

A.  B.  1041.  Widenmann.  Appropriating  money  for  power 
house  repairs  and  equipment  at  the  Napa  State  Hospital. 

California    School    for    Girls. 

S.  B.  416.  Mott.  Appropriating  $7000  for  the  construction  of 
a  commissary  building  and  equipment  at  the  California  School 
for  Girls   located  near  Ventura. 

S.  B.  417.  Mott.  Appropriating  $21,000  for  the  construction 
of  farm  buildings  and  improvements  at  the  California  School 
for  Girls   located   near  Ventura. 

S.  B.  418.  Mott.  Appropriating  money  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  a  cottage  for  males  at  the  California  School 
for  Girls  located  near  Ventura. 

A.  B.  435.  Edwards,  R.  G.  Appropriating  money  for  the 
construction  and  furnishing  of  six  typical  cottages  at  the 
California   School   for   Girls   located   near  Ventura. 

A.  B.   436.     Edwards,  R.  G.     Appropriating  $2500  for  the  con- 


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struction  of  garage  and  tool  house  at  the  California  School 
for  Girls  located  near  Ventura. 

A.  B.  437.  Edwards,  R.  G.  Appropriating  money  for  the 
construction  of  fences  on  the  property  of  the  California  School 
for  Girls  located  near  Ventura. 

.  A.  B.  438.  Edwards,  R.  G.  Appropriating  money  for  the 
improvement  of  grounds  and  purchase  of  necessary  equipment 
therefor   at   the   California   School   for   Girls   near   Ventura. 

A.  B.  1164.  Edwards,  R.  G.  Appropriating  $7500  for  the 
construction  of  surface  drains  and  to  in  other  ways  care  for 
storm  water  at  the  California  Schools  for  Girls  located  near 
Ventura. 

Preston    School    of    Industry. 

S.  B.   1038.     Mott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1164.     Edwards. 

S.  B.  191.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $30,000  for  repairs 
and  improvements  and  erection  of  small  buildings  at  the  Pres- 
ton School  of  Industry. 

A.  B.  249.     Kerr.     Identical  with  S.  B.  191.     Stuckenbruck. 

San    Quentln    State    Prison. 

A.  B.  470.  Wright.  Appropriating  $232,000  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  State  prison  at  San  Quentin  for  the 
sixty- sixth  fiscal  year. 

S.  B.  356.  Strobridge.  Appropriating  $232,000  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  State  prison  at  San  Quentin  for  the 
sixty-sixth  fiscal  year. 

S.  B.  362.  Finn.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  purchase  of 
machinery  and  equipment  for  the  manufacturing  departments 
at  the  State  prison  at  San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  464.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  362.     Finn. 

S.  B.  363.  Finn.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  State  prison  at  San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  466.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.   363.     Finn. 

S.  B.  364.  Finn.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  construction 
and  equipment  of  dairy  and  farm  buildings  at  the  State  prison 
at  San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  462.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  364.     Finn. 

S.  B.  365.  Finn.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  construction 
and  equipment  of  a  concrete  bath  house  at  the  State  prison 
at  San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  463.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  365.     Finn. 

S.  B.  366.  Finn.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  extension  of 
the  walls  at  the  State  prison  at  San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  460.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  366.     Finn. 

S.  B.  367.  Finn.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  development  of 
the  water  supply  and  pumping  plant  at  the  State  prison  at 
San  Quentin. 


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A.  B.  461.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  367.     Finn. 

S.  B.  368.  Finn.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  purchase  of  live 
stock  at  the  State  prison  at   San  Quentin. 

A.  B.  465.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  368.     Finn. 

A.  B.  601.  Wright.  To  create  a  revolving  fund  for  the 
manufacturing  departments  at  the  State  prison  at  San  Quen- 
tin  and    to   appropriate   $50,000   therefor. 

Sonoma   State    Home. 

S.  B.  182.  Slater.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  a  building  for  male  epileptics  at  the  Sonoma 
State   Home. 

S.  B.  183.  Slater.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  improvement 
of  grounds  and   roads  at  the- Sonoma  State  Home. 

A.  B.  187.  Salisbury.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  con- 
struction and  furnishing  of  a  girls'  nursery  building  at  the: 
Sonoma  State  Home. 

A.  B.  188.  Salisbury.  Appropriating  $16,750  for  water  and! 
steam  piping  and  plumbing  repairs  at  the  Sonoma  State  Home. 

S.  B.  977.  Slater.  Appropriating  money  for  the  erection 
of  a  laundry  building  at  Sonoma  State  Home. 

S.  B.  978.  Slater.  Appropriating  $3000.00  for  the  purpose  of 
remodeling  the  present  laundry  building  at  the  Sonoma  State 
Home  into  a  commissary. 

Southern  California  State  Hospital. 

S.  B.  262.  King.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  construction 
and  furnishing  of  two  patient  cottages  at  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia  State   Hospital. 

A.  B.   311.     Phelps.     Identical  with  S.  B.  262.     King. 

S.  B.  263.  King.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  development 
of  water,  including  the  installation  of  pumping  station  and 
mains    at    the    Southern    California    State    Hospital. 

A.   B.  312.     Phelps.     Identical  with  S.   B.   263.     King. 

S.    B.    264.     King.     Appropriating   $5000   for  the   construction 
of    fences    and    the    purchase    of   wire    and    other    material    for 
enclosures  at  the   Southern   California  State  Hospital. 
B.   313.     Phelps.     Identical  with  S.   B.   264.     King. 

Stockton  State   Hospital. 

S.  B.  190.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $12,000  for  the  pur- 
chase of  additions  to  the  dairy  herd  at  the  Stockton  State 
Hospital. 

S.  B.  192.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $30,000  for  the  con- 
struction and  furnishing  of  a  convalescent  building  for  females 
at   the   Stockton   State   Hospital. 

S.  B.  193.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $3000  for  the  con- 
struction and  furnishing  of  an  isolation  hospital  at  the  Stock- 
ton State  Hospital. 


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S.  B.  194.  Stuckenbruck.  Appropriating  $7000  for  the  pur- 
chase and  expense  of  installation  of  a  boiler  at  the  Stockton 
State  Hospital. 

A.  B.  244.  Ashley.  Appropriating  $7000  for  the  construction 
of   farm   buildings   at   the    Stockton   State   Hospital. 

A.  B.  322.  Edwards,  L.  Appropriating  $14,500  for  wiring  for 
electricity   at   the   Stockton    State   Hospital. 

A.  B.  323.  Edwards,  L.  Appropriating  money  for  the  con- 
struction and  furnishing  of  a  cottage  for  males  at  the  Stock- 
ton  State  Hospital. 

A.  B.  324.  Edwards,  L.  Appropriating  $6000  for  the  con- 
struction and  furnishing  of  a  tubercular  hospital  at  the  Stock- 
ton  State  Hospital. 

A.  B.  828.  Edwards,  L.  Appropriating  $8000  to  construct 
and  furnish  two  cottages  for  physicians  at  the  Stockton  State 
Hospital. 

Veterans'  Home. 

S.  B.  241.  Rush.  Appropriating  $150,000  for  the  construc- 
tion and  equipping  of  a  new  hospital  building  for  the  Veterans' 
Home   of  California. 

S.  B.  242.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements to  the  buildings  at  the  Veterans'  Home  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.  B.  243.  Rush.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  the  construction 
and  equipment  of  bath  rooms  in  the  barracks  at  the  Veterans' 
Home. 

S.  B.  244.  Rush.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  plumbing  and 
repairs   to   plumbing   at   the   Veterans'   Home   of   California. 

S.  B.  245.  Rush.  Appropriating  $3500  for  wiring  for  electric- 
ity at   the  Veterans'  Home  of  California. 

Women's    Relief    Corps    Home. 

A.  B.  161.  Wright,  T.  M.  Providing  for  improvements,  re- 
pairs and  furnishings  for  the  buildings  and  grounds  of  the 
Woman's  Relief  Corps  Home  located  at  Evergreen,  Santa 
Clara  County,   and  appropriating  $2,500.00   therefor. 

A.  B.  162.  Wright,  T.  M.  Providing  for  nurses  and  medi- 
cal attendants  for  the  inmates  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps 
Home  located  at  Evergreen,  Santa  Clara  County,  and  ap- 
propriating money  therefor. 

S.  B.  412.  Benson.  Appropriating  $2500  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements at  the  Women's  Relief  Corps  Home  at  Evergreen. 

Whittier  State  School. 

S.  B.  395.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $6000  for  the  erection 
of  a  superintendent's  residence  at  the  Whittier  State  School. 

A.  B.  421.     Lostutter.     Identical  with  S.  B.   395.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  396.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  repairs,  im- 
provements and  equipment  at  the  Whittier  State  School. 


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A.  B.  422.     Lostutter.     Identical  with  S.  B.  396.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  397.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $10,000  for  the  erection 
of  school  quarters  and  library  building  at  the  Whittier  State 
School. 

A.  B.  420.     Lostutter.     Identical  with  S.  B.  397.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  39S.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $50,000  for  the  erection 
and   furnishing  of  cottages  at  the   Whittier  State   School. 

A.  B.   423.     Lostutter.     Identical  with  S.  B.   398.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  399.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $15,000  for  building, 
equipping  and  furnishing  quarters  for  officers  at  Whittier  State 
School. 

S.  B.  400.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  $35,000  for  building, 
equipping  and  furnishing  an  administration  building  at  Whit- 
tier State  School. 

S.  B.  544.  Cogswell.  Appropriating  money  to  supplement 
the  support  appropriation  of  the  Whittier  State  School  for  the 
sixty-sixth  fiscal  year. 

STATE     OFFICES    AND     DEPARTMENTS. 

A.  B.  1092.  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  for  the 
support  of  the  Government  of  the  State  of  California  for  the 
sixty-seventh  and  sixty-eighth  fiscal  years  (introduced  by  title 
and   preamble   only). 

A.  B.  594.  Wright.  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  for  the 
payment  of  compensation  benefits  accruing  by  reason  of  per- 
sonal injury  resulting  from  accident  to  State  officers  and  em- 
ployees while  performing  services  accruing  out  of  and  inci- 
dental to  their  employment. 

A.  B.  467.  Wright.  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the 
cost  of  rental,  porter  service,  cost  of  moving,  and  other  ex- 
pense necessary  to  the  location  and  maintenance  of  State 
offices  in  Sacramento  outside  the  Capitol  Building  for  the 
sixty-sixth  fiscal  year. 

A.  B.  613.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $1650  to  pay  for  auto 
truck    and    equipment    therefor   for    the    State    Printing    Office, 

A.  B.  614.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $2500  for  the  purpose 
of  insuring  the  State  Printing  Plant. 

A.  B.  579.  Phelps.  Appropriating  $145.85  to  pay  the  de- 
ficiency in  the  appropriation  for  traveling  expense  for  the 
State   Board   of  Agriculture   in   the   sixty-second   fiscal   year. 

S.  B.  636.  Thompson.  Appropriating  $72,500  to  defray  the 
expense  of  legislative  printing,  and  mailing  handled  by  the 
Superintendent  of  State  Printing,  for  the  forty-first  session 
of  the   Legislature  of  the   State   of  California. 

A.  B.  709.  Meek.  Appropriating  $30,000  to  meet  the  ex- 
penses of  compiling,  printing  and  distributing  constitutional 
amendments. 

S.   B.   376.    Benedict.    Appropriating  $2000  to  pay  the  expense 


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of  compiling  and  publishing  the  revenue  laws  of  the   State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  468.  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the 
expenses  incurred  In  the  publication  of  bond  acts  presented 
to  the  people  at  the  election  of  November  3,   1914. 

A.  B.  471.  Wright,  H.  W.  Appropriating  money  to  pay  the 
deficiency  in  the  appropriation  for  printing  and  distributing 
constitutional  amendments  for  the  sixty-fifth  and  sixty-sixth 
fiscal  years. 

S.  B.  463.  Strobridge.  Appropriating  $6649.19  to  pay  the 
deficiency  in  the  appropriation  for  printing  and  distributing 
constitutional  amendments   for   the   65th   and   66th   fiscal  years. 

A.  B.  693.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  purchase 
of  machinery  and   equipment  for  the   State  Printing  Plant. 

S.  B.  856.  Thompson.  Appropriating  $200,000.00  for  the  use 
of  the  Railroad  Commission  of  the  State  of  California  in  the 
control    of   public    utilities    within    incorporated    municipalities. 

S.  B.  829.  Campbell.  Appropriating  $3500.00  for  office  equip- 
ment for  Secretary  of  State. 

A.  B.  998.     Bartlett.     Identical  with  S.  B.  829.     Campbell. 

S.  B.  897.  Birdsall.  Appropriating  $5000  for  furnishing, 
repairing,   renovating  and   improving  the  Governor's  residence. 

S.  B.  980.  Rush.  Appropriating  $2658.00  for  the  purchase  of 
an  automobile  for  the  use  of  the  Governor  of  the  State  of 
California. 

A.  B.  1148.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  money  to  supplement 
and  be  added  to  the  cash  revolving  fund  provided  for  the  use 
of  the  State  Engineeer  by  Chapter  108  of  the  Statutes  of  1913, 
approved  May  8,   1913. 

A.  B.  1157.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  money  to  be  expended 
on  the  paths,  walks  and  drives  in  the  grounds  of  the  State 
Capitol  in  the  City  of  Sacramento. 

S.  B.  1052.  Breed.  Appropriating  $2000  for  equipment  foi 
the  State  Treasurer's  office. 

A.  B.  1346.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  equipping 
and    furnishing    the    State   printing    plant. 

A.  B.  1347.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $5000  for  the  furnish- 
ing and  equipping  of  the  gardener's  lodge  to  be  erected  on  the 
State   Capitol   grounds. 

A.  B.  1348.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $100,000  for  the  con- 
struction of  a  building  to  accommodate  the  State  printing 
plant. 

A.  B.  1349.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $25,000  for  the  purchase 
of  suitable  lands  in  the  City  of  Sacramento  upon  which  to 
build  a  State  Printing  Office,  and  creating  a  commission  to 
select   and    purchase    such    lands. 

A.  B.  1363.  Gebhart.  Appropriating  $20,000  for  the  con- 
struction of  a  gardener's  lodge  on  the  State  Capitol  grounds. 


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GENERAL    LAWS 

ADVERTISING. 

S.  B.  220.  Scott  (by  request).  Providing  against  the  pub- 
lishing or  circulating  of  an  advertisement,  in  any  form,  con- 
taining any  assertion,  representation  or  statement  of  fact 
which  is  untrue,  deceptive  or  misleading,  and  declaring  vio- 
lation  of  statute   a  misdemeanor. 

A.   B.   222.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.   220.     Scott. 

A.  B.  496.  Encell.  Prohibiting  the  advertisement  or  publica- 
tion of  any  advertisement  that  any  person  will  cure  or  treat 
or  attempt  to  cure  or  treat  any  venereal  disease  or  diseases 
of  the  sexual  organs,  or  the  advertisement  of  any  medicine, 
medical  preparation,  remedy  or  prescription  for  such  diseases 
or  ailments,  and  providing  a  penalty  therefor. 

A.  B.  1432.  Fish.  Relating  to  exterior  advertising  as<  in  this 
Act  denned,  declaring  the  prohibition  of  the  use  of  property 
for  such  purpose  a  public  use,  providing  for  the  acquisition  of 
such  use,  and  prohibiting  exterior  advertising  on  property  as 
to  which  such  use  has  been  acquired.  (Introduced  by  title 
only.)     A.   B.   1954.     Fish.     "Pending  Legislation,   1913,"   p.   270. 

AGRICULTURE. 

S.  B.  188.  Cogswell.  Creating  a  Department  of  Agriculture 
and  creating  the  office  of  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Governor,  for  a  term  of  four  years;  denning 
his  powers  and  duties  and  fixing  his  salary  at  $7500  per  annum; 
providing  for  the  reorganization  and  consolidation  of  various 
departments — the  State  Agricultural  Society,  State  Commis- 
sioner of  Horticulture,  State  Board  of  Horticultural  Examin- 
ers, State  Dairy  Bureau,  Board  of  Examiners  of  Veterinary 
Medicine,  State  Veterinarian,  State  Board  of  Sheep  Commis- 
sioners, Stallion  Registration  Board,  Viticultural  Commission- 
ers, and  State  Superintendent  of  Weights  and  Measures — and 
the  administration  of  said  departments  under  one  head,  to  be 
known  as  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  with  three  bureaus, 
the  bureau  of  animal  industry,  in  two  divisions;  live  stock, 
including  bees,  and  dairying;  the  bureau  of  horticulture,  and 
the  bureau  of  economics,  in  three  divisions,  land  settlement, 
fairs  and  exhibits,  and  markets  and  statistics,  and  denning 
the  powers  and  duties  of  its   officers. 

A.  B.  164.  Avey.  Creating  a  department  of  agriculture  and 
creating  the  office  of  secretary  of  agriculture;  denning  his 
powers  and  duties  and  fixing  his  salary;  providing  for  the 
reorganization  and  consolidation  of  various  departments  and 
the  administration  of  said  departments  under  one  head  to  be 


16Q  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

known  as  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  defining  the 
powers   and    duties    of    its    officers. 

S.  B.  508.  Brown.  Creating  a  special  trust  fund  in  aid  of 
agriculture  within  the  State  of  California,  to  be  known  as 
the  State  Rural  Credit  Fund,  appropriating  $200,000  therefor, 
and    providing   for   its   administration. 

Creates  a  board  of  trustees,  consisting  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture,  the  Superintendent  of  Banks,  who  shall  act  ex- 
officio,  and  one  other  person  to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor, 
who  shall  be  chairman  of  the  commission  and  receive  a  salary 
of  $5000  a  year,  to  administer  the  State  Rural  Credit  Fund, 
and  make  loans  payable  in  fixed  annual  sums  of  both  prin- 
cipal and  interest  secured  by  first  mortgages  on  agricultural 
property  within  the  State  to  approved  borrowers  for  periods 
not  to  exceed  35  years  and  at  not  less  than  4  per  cent  per 
annum. 

The  trustees  are  authorized  to  issue  and  sell  tax  exempt 
mortgage  collateral  bonds,  which  shall  be  a  legal  investment 
for  trust  and  savings  funds,  but  at  no  time  shall  the  amount 
of  such  bonds  exceed  twenty  times  the  amount  of  paid  up 
capital  of  the  fund;  to  purchase  mortgage  loans  on  agri- 
cultural property  within  the  State  from  private  banking  and 
credit  corporations,  and  may  reduce  interest  thereon  to  not 
less  than  4  per  cent  and  introduce  a  plan  of  gradual  amortiz- 
ation of  both  principal  and  interest;  to  frame  regulations  for 
the  organization  of  rural  credit  associations,  and  upon  suf- 
ficient security  make  loans  to  the  members,  secured  by  first 
mortgages,  and  may  accept  deposits  or  reserve  funds  thereof 
and  pay  interest  thereon  and  act  as  agent  and  trustee 
therefor. 

Reports  on  lands  on  which  developments  are  contemplated 
through  loans  from  this  fund  shall  be  made  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  free  of  charge  to  the  fund,  but  other 
agents  may  be  engaged  to  determine  the  value  of  the  prop- 
erty on  which  loans  are  sought. 

S.  B.  509.  Brown.  Authorizing  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture 
to  purchase,  improve,  subdivide  and  sell  agricultural  lands  in 
California,  and  providing  the  conditions  under  which  such 
lands  shall  be  purchased,  improved,  subdivided  and  sold; 
authorizing  the  issuance  and  sale  of  land  settlement  bonds 
and  the  creation  of  a  land  settlement  fund  for  the  purchase 
of  agricultural  lands  in  California;  together  with  any  water 
rights  and  rights  of  way  necessary  or  desirable  therefor,  and 
all  expenses  and  costs  of  surveying,  improving,  subdividing 
and  selling  such  lands,  including  costs  of  assessments  and 
taxes,  and  the  payment  of  interest  on  outstanding  land  set- 
tlement bonds  to  case  there  is  insufficient  money  for  that 
purpose  in  the  land  settlement  sinking  fund,   and  all  costs  of 


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engineering,  superintendence  and  administration,  including 
the  cost  of  operating  any  works  built;  providing  for  the  ad- 
ministration of  said  land  settlement  fund;  providing  for  the 
creation  of  a  sinking  fund  for  the  payment  of  said  bonds; 
authorizing  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  make  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  disposal  of  lands  purchased  under 
the  provisions  of  this  Act;  authorizing  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture to  investigate  land  settlement  conditions  and  to  sub- 
mit recommendations  for  legislation  in  regard  thereto;  au- 
thorizing the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  condemn  water 
rights  and  rights  of  way  for  necessary  roads,  canals,  ditches, 
dams  and  reservoirs;  and  making  an  appropriation  to  enable 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

A.  B.  34.  Judson.  To  form  agricultural  districts,  pro- 
viding for  boards  of  directors  for  the  government  thereof,  and 
for  the  management  and  control  of  the  same  by  the  State, 
and  making  an  appropriation  therefor,  and  repealing  all  Acts 
and    portions   of  Acts   in    conflict   with    this   Act. 

A.  B.  651.  Judson.  To  form  agricultural  districts,  providing 
for  boards  of  directors  for  the  government  thereof,  and  for 
the  management  and  control  of  the  same  by  the  S'tate,  and 
appropriating  $42,000  therefor,  and  repealing  all  Acts  and  por- 
tions of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act. 

Divides  the  State  into  eight  districts,  and  provides  for  a 
board  of  directors  in  each  district  to  hold  fairs,  expositions 
and   exhibitions. 

A.  B.  297.  Avey.  Assenting  to  the  provisions  and  require- 
ments of  the  Act  of  Congress  of  the  United  States  entitled 
"An  Act  to  provide  for  co-operative  agricultural  extension 
work  between  the  agricultural  colleges  in  the  several  states 
receiving  the  benefits  of  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  July 
2,  1862,  and  of  Acts  supplementary  thereto,  and  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture",  approved  by  the  President 
of  the  United  States  May  8,  1914,  and  authorizing  and  em- 
powering the  regents  of  the  University  of  California  to  receive 
the  grants  of  money  appropriated  under  said  Act,  and  to 
organize  and  conduct  agricultural  extension  work  in  accord- 
ance with  the  terms  and  conditions  expressed  in  said  Act, 
Id  making  an  appropriation  for  the  purposes  thereof. 
5.  B.  450.  Chandler.  Indentical  with  A.  B.  297.  Avey. 
\.  B.  306.  Judson.  Empowering  county  boards  of  super- 
iors to  appropriate  and  use  county  funds  for  the  support 
d  maintenance  of  extension  work  in  agriculture  and  home 
economics  in  co-operation  with  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture   and   the  University   of   California. 

S.  B.  436.     Flint.     Identical  with  A.   B.   306.     Judson. 


162  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

S.  B.  945.  Rush.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
April  15,  1880,  as  amended  June  11,  1913,  to  provide  for  the 
management  and  control  of  the  State  Agricultural  Society  by 
the  State. 

A.  B.  1433.  Meek.  Providing  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  a  branch  agricultural  experiment  station  and 
making  an  appropriation   therefor. 

A.  B.  1171.  Rigdon.  To  encourage  the  teaching  of  agriculture 
In  the  public  schools  of  the  State  and  providing  an  appropria- 
tion  therefor. 

A.  B.  1393.  Boude.  To  provide  for  the  holding  of  an  annual 
State   Poultry    Show  and   appropriating   $3000   therefor. 

S.  B.  301.  Breed.  Amending  Section  9  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  20,  1903,  to  regulate  the  sale  of  commercial  fertilizers 
or  materials  used  for  manorial  purposes,  and  to  provide  pen- 
alties for  the  infraction  thereof,  and  means  for  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  Act,  by  providing  that  all  registry,  analytical  or 
special  license  fees  shall  be  paid  to  the  secretary  of  the  Board 
of   Regents,   etc. 

A.  B.  308.     Edwards.     Identical  with  S.  B.  301.     Breed. 

ANIMALS,     DISEASES    OF. 

See    Cattle,    Horses    and    Livestock.) 

ANIMALS,   TRESPASSING     OF. 

A.  B.  529.  Ream.  To  prohibit  the  bringing  of  actions 
against  owners  of  livestock  trespassing  upon  unfenced  private 
lands  within  the  boundaries  of  any  national  forest  in  the 
State  of  California. 

A.  B.  197.  Conard,  by  request.  Regulating  the  keeping  or 
pasturing   of   goats. 

More  than  three  goats  cannot  be  maintained  on  grazing 
land  unless  enclosed  with  goat-tight  fence,  except  by  per- 
mission of  board  of  supervisors,  and  no  such  permit  shall  be 
granted  until  there  shall  be  first  filed  with  the  county  clerk 
the  written  consent  of  all  land  owners  within  three  miles 
of  the  boundary  of  the  land  to  be  used  as  a  goat  pasture. 
Violation    a    misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  1116.  Fish.  An  Act  supplemental  to  an  Act  approved 
March  7,  1878,  concerning  trespassing  animals  upon  private 
lands  in  certain  counties  of  the  State  of  California,  and  to 
extend  the  provisions  of  said  Act  to  Kern  County. 

ANTI-ALIEN     LAND     LAWS. 

A.  B.  612.  Shartel.  Amending  Sections  2  and  3  of  an  Act 
approved  May  19,  1913,  relating  to  the  rights,  powers  and 
disabilities  of  aliens  and  of  certain  companies,  associations 
and   corporations  with   respect  to  property  in  this   State,   pro- 


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viding  for  escheats  in  certain  cases,  prescribing  the  pro- 
cedure therein,  and  repealing  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  incon- 
sistent or  in  conflict  herewith;  providing  for  the  repeal  of 
certain  provisions  in  relation  to  the  right  to  lease  lands  for 
agricultural  purposes. 

ARCHITECTURE. 

S.  B.  1031.  Carr.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  23,   1901,   to  regulate  the  practice  of  architecture. 

ASEXUALIZATION. 

S.  B.  1018.  Cogswell.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved April  26,  1909,  to  permit  asexualization  of  inmates  of 
the  State  hospitals  and  the  California  Home  for  the  Care  and 
Training  of  Febble-Minded  Children,  and  of  convicts  in  the 
State  prisons. 

ASSESSMENT. 
(See   also   Taxation.) 

S.  B.  280.  Thompson.  Confirming,  validating  and  legalizing 
assessments  of  property  and  taxes  due  thereunder  entered  and 
contained  in  assessment  books  or  rolls  from  which  assessment 
books  or  rolls  the  clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors  and  auditor 
omitted  to  attach  and  enter  the  affidavit  or  certificate,  or 
both  such  certificate  and  affidavit,  required  by  the  provisions 
of  Sections  3682  and  3732  of  the  Political  Code,  and  to  confirm, 
validate  and  legalize  all  certificates  of  sale,  tax  deeds,  or  other 
tax  conveyances  issued  under  and  based  upon  any  such  assess- 
ments and  taxes. 

BANKING. 
(See  also   Public  Moneys.) 

S.  B.  668.  Hans.  Amending  Sections  1,  3,  11,  15,  20,  25,  28, 
32,  36,  43,  46,  47,  48,  49,  56,  61,  65,  67,  68,  80,  83,  96,  101,  127,  144  and 
145  of  an  Act  to  define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking, 
approved  March  1,  1909,  designated  the  "Bank  Act",  and  by 
adding  a  new  section  thereto  to  be  numbered  Section  57,  all 
relating  to  the  definition  and  regulation  of  the  business  of 
banking. 

S.  B.  586.  Flint.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  March  1,  1909, 
to  define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking  known  as  the 
Bank  Act,  by  amending  Section  53  thereof  added  thereto  by 
an  Act  entitled  an  Act  to  amend  that  certain  Act  of  the 
Legislature  of  the  State  of  California  entitled  "An  Act  to 
define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking",  approved 
March  1,  1909,  by  amending  Sections  11,  20,  23,  33,  35,  39,  43, 
49,  60,  62,  80,  82,  83,  96,  123,  133,  124  and  121  thereof,  and  by 
adding  new  Sections  12a,  52,  53  and  84  thereto,  approved  April 
21,   1911,   relating  to   the   capital  stock  of  banks. 


1&4  PENDING    LEGISLATION;  1915. 

A.  B'.  655.  Encell.  Adding  Section  67a  (new)  to  an  Act 
to  define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking,  approved 
March  1,  1901,  designated  the  "Banking  Act"  as  amended 
February  6,  1911,  April  21,  1911,  December  18,  1911,  December 
24,  1911,  May  6,  1913,  and  May  31,  1913,  providing  that  no  loan 
shall '  be  made  by  a  savings  bank  on  security  of  real  estate 
unless  title  is  shown  to  be  in  borrower  by  policy  of  title 
insurance  or  guaranteed  certificate  of  title,  or  by  abstract 
of  title  examined  by  and  approved  in  writing  by  attorney  of 
bank  making  loan. 

S.  B.  652.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  96  of  the  Act 
known  as  the  "Bank  Act",  approved  March  1,  1909,  as  amended 
February  6,  1911;  April  21,  1911;  December  18,  1911;  December 
24,   1911,   and  May  6,   1913. 

S.  B.  81.  Jones.  Adding  section  146  to  an  Act  "approved 
March  1,  1909,  to  define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking, 
designated  the  "Bank  Aet,"  relating  to  trusts  and  dispensing 
with  the  deposit  of  securities  by  corporations  acting  as  trus- 
tees under  deeds  of  trust  or  similar  instruments  securing 
the    performance    of   obligations    in    certain   instances. 

S.  B.  957.  Shearer.  Amending  Section  10  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  1,  1909,  as  amended  February  6,  1911,  April  21, 
1911,  December  18,  1911,  December  24,  1911  and  May  6,  1913, 
to  define  and  regulate  the  business  of  banking,  designated  the 
"Bank   Act". 

BARBERS. 

A.  B.  1357.  Downing  (by  request).  Authorizing  and  direct- 
ing the  State  Board  of  Health  to  establish  the  State  barber 
registration  and  sanitation  bureau  for  the  purpose  of  regulat- 
ing barbers  and  their  occupation  and  the  sanitation  of  barber 
shops,   etc.  .      . 

"BLUE    SKY"    LAW. 
(See   Investment   Companies,    Regulation   of.) 

BOARD     OF     HEALTH,   STATE. 

(See  Public  Health  and  Sanitation;   Barbers;  Embalmers; 
Tuberculosis.) 

S.  B.  407.  Scott.  Creating  the  position  of  stenographer  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health  and  fixing  the  compensation  thereof. 

A.   B.   652.     McPherson.     Identical  with   S.   B.    407,    Scott. 

S.  B.  798.  Gerdes.  Providing  for  the  organization  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health,  prescribing  its  duties  and  powers  and 
providing  for  the  protection  and  preservation  of  the  public 
health. 

A.  B.  923.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  798.     Gerdes. 

S.  B.  838.  Jones.  To  provide  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance   of   a    department   of   sanitary    engineering   under 


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the  direction  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  and   appropriating 
$30,000.00  therefor. 

BONDS. 

(See  Irrigation;  Street  Improvement;  Municipal  Corporations; 
Official   Bonds.) 

S.  B.  614.  Carr  (by  request).  To  confirm  and  validate  bonds 
issued  and  to  be  issued  by  the  State  of  California  under  the 
provisions  of  the  "State  Highways  Act",  and  "San  Francisco 
Harbor   Improvement   Act    of    1909". 

A.  B.  342.  Wills.  To  legalize  bonds  issued  and  to  be  issued 
and  sold   by  Imperial  Irrigation   District. 

A.  B.  341.  Wills.  To  legalize  bonds  issued  and  to  be  issued 
and  sold  by  irrigation  districts. 

S.  B.  98.  Carr.  Validating  municipal  bonds,  and  to  pro- 
vide for  the  levy  and  collection  of  taxes  to  pay  the  principal 
and    interest    on    such    bonds. 

A.  B.  909.     Sisson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  98.     Carr. 

S.  B.  99.  Carr.  Validating  bonds  of  school  districts  and 
high  school  districts,  and  to  provide  for  the  levy  and  collec- 
tion of  taxes  to  pay  the  principal  and  interest  on  such  bonds. 

A.  B.  455.  Manning  (by  request).  To  provide  for  the  issu- 
ance of  street  improvement  bonds  to  represent  and  be  secured 
by  certain  assessments  made  for  the  cost  of  certain  work  and 
improvements  made  in  and  upon  streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys, 
courts,  places  and  sidewalks  within  municipalities  and  upon 
property  and  rights  of  way  owned  by  municipalities,  to  pro- 
vide for  the  collection  of  such  assessments,  the  sale  of  the 
property  secured  thereby  and  for  the  payment  of  the  bonds 
so  issued. 

A.  B,  819.  Lostutter  (by  request).  To  validate  street  im- 
provement bonds. 

BONDS,  OFFICIAL,  PREMIUM  ON. 
■  A.  B.  1193.  Scott,  F.  C.  To  provide  for  the  filing  of  bonds 
by  certain  employees  of  the  Department  of  Engineering  ami 
for  the  payment  by  the  said  department  of  the  premiums  or 
charges  on  bonds  of  its  employees  when  given  by  surety 
companies. 

S.  B.   1074.     Birdsall.     Identical  with  A.  B.   1193.     Scott. 

BROKERS. 

A.  B.  513.  Phillips.  Relating  to  the  regulation  and  licensing 
of  pawnbrokers;  investing  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics  with  the  administration  of  the  Act;  and  pre- 
scribing penalties  for  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

A.  B.  1112.  Marron.  Providing  for  the  regulation  and  licen- 
sing of  the  business  of  making  small  loans,  designated  as  the. 


166  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

business  of  personal  loan  broker;  requiring  the  commissioner 
of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  to  enforce  and  administer 
the  Act;  and  prescribing  penalties  for  violation  of  the  provis- 
ions hereof. 

A.  B.  1429.  Brown,  H.  W.  Defining  and  relating  to  wage- 
brokers;  regulating  assignments  of  wages  and  salaries  as  se- 
curities for  loans;  and  fixing  a  maximum  rate  of  interest  for 
loans  upon  wages  and  salaries,  and  providing  penalties  for  the 
violation  thereof. 

Requires  a  license  and  execution  of  bond  to  conduct  busi- 
ness as  wage-broker;  boards  of  supervisors  empowered  to 
regulate  business;  no  assignment  of  salary  or  wages  by  any 
employee  or  wage-earner  to  a  wage-broker  or  other  person 
shall  be  valid  or  enforceable,  unless  it  be  for  fixed  and  definite 
part  of  salary  or  wages  earned  or  to  be  earned  during  period 
not  exceeding  30  days  immediately  following  assignment.  Post 
dated  or  wrongly  dated  assignments  shall  be  void;  no  wage- 
broker  shall  ask  or  receive  any  compensation  or  interest  in 
excess  of  1  per  cent  a  month,  computed  on  the  amount  actu- 
ally advanced;  no  assignment  of  wages  or  salary  by  a  married 
man  shall  be  valid  or  enforceable  without  consent  of  wife 
evidenced  by  her  signature  to  assignment  executed  and  ac- 
knowledged before  notary,  and  no  wage-broker  or  person  con- 
nected directly  or  indirectly  with  him  shall  be  authorized  to 
take  acknowledgments;  no  wage-broker  shall  make  any  loan 
to  a  minor,  nor  shall  any  assignment  of  wages  or  salary  by 
minor  be  valid  or  enforceable;  no  assignment  of  wages  or 
salary  shall  be  valid  or  enforceable  unless  notice  in  writing 
with  copy  be  given  employer  of  debtor  within  10  days  after 
date  of  execution;  every  purchase  by  wage-broker  of  an  assign- 
ment of  wages  or  salary  shall  be  held  to  be  a  loan,  in  sum 
actually  paid  to  person  making  assignment,  and  subject  to  all 
provisions  of  this  act;  violation  declared  a  misdemeanor,  pun- 
ishable by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  or  more  than  $500  for  each 
offense,  or  by  imprisonment  not  to  exceed  90  "days  ,  or  both; 
any  note  or  indebtedness  and  any  assignment  of  wages  given 
to  or  received  by  any  wage-broker  in  violation  of  this  Act 
shall  be  null  and  void,  and  upon  conviction  any  and  all  moneys 
advanced  or  loaned  in  violation  hereof  shall  be  forfeited. 

A.  B.  374.  Chamberlain.  Relating  to  real  estate  brokers, 
agents,   salesmen  and  dealers  in  the  State  of  California. 

Provides  that  no  person  shall  act  as  broker,  agent,  salesman 
or  dealer  in  soliciting  or  receiving  applications  or  contracts 
for  the  rental,  sale,  purchase  or  exchange  of  real  estate  with- 
out a  certificate  of  authority  from  the  Secretary  of  State; 
defines  "real  estate  broker;"  provides  that  every  person  de- 
siring to  engage  in  real  estate  business  shall  apply  to  Secre- 
tary of  State  for  certificate  of  registration,  which  application 
shall  be  accompanied  by  certificate  from  county  clerk  of  county 


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where  applicant  resides,  reciting  that  he  is  a  resident  of  that 
county,  giving  his  specific  business  address,  and  that  he  has 
a  good  reputation  therein  for  truth,  honesty  and  integrity; 
together  with  fee  of  $10;  whereupon  Secretary  of  State  shall 
issue  a  non-transferable  certificate,  entitling  applicant  to 
engage  in  real  estate  business.  Every  person  to  whom  such 
certificate  is  issued  must  conspicuously  display  in  his  place  of 
business  a  sign  bearing  words  "Registered  Real  Estate  Broker." 
Such  certificates  to  be  renewed  annually  on  July  1st  upon 
payment  of  fee  of  $5.  Out  of  each  dollar  collected  Secretary 
of  State  shall  pay  ten  cents  into  general  fund  of  State  and  90 
cents  into  State  advertising  fund. 

Persons  so  registered  are  prohibited  from  paying  any  com- 
mission, brokerage,  or  other  valuable  consideration  on  account 
of  any  real  estate  transaction  in  this  State  to  any  person  in 
this  State  not  so  registered. 

Certificate  may  be  revoked  upon  conviction  of  violation  of 
Act  or  of  fraud  against  principal  in  a  sale,  tried  upon  a  veri- 
fied accusation  in  writing  in  the  Superior  Court,  and  court 
shall  determine  period  of  revocation,  which  shall  be  not  less 
than  one  year  nor  more  than  five  years. 

Any  person  engaging  in  real  estate  business  without  certifi- 
cate of  registration  after  passage  of  this  Act,  or  who  continues 
business  after  revocation  of  certificate,  shall  be  guilty  of  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor  more 
than  $500,  or  imprisonment  not  less  than  one  or  more  than 
30  days,  or  both. 

BUILDING     AND     LOAN     LAW. 

(See  also  Civil  Code.) 

S.  B.  97.  Benson.  Amending  Sections  2,  3  and  6  of  an  Act 
approved  April  5,  1911,  known  as  "The  Building  and  Loan 
Commission  Act,"  and  amended  by  an  Act  approved  Decem- 
ber 18,  1911,  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  Build- 
ing and   Loan   Commissioner. 

Provides  (Sec.  2.)  secretary  shall  be  deputy  Commissioner; 
increases  the  salary  (Sec.  3)  of  Commissioner  and  secretary 
to  $3600  and  $2400,  respectively,  with  $1600  per  year  for  ex- 
penses; and  provides  that  where  an  extended  audit  is  neces- 
sary a  competent  auditor  may  be  appointed  at  expense  of 
concern  examined  at  not  to  exceed  $15.00  per  day;  and  grants 
power  to  make  examinations  of  books  and  affairs  of  any  for- 
eign association  applying  for  license  in  this  State  expense 
of  which  shall  be  paid  by  concern  examined,  except  that 
Commissioner  may  accept  result  of  similar  examination  made 
and  certified  by  duly  constituted  authorities  of  any  State 
having  similar  laws  of  supervision. 


168  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.    B.    53.      Wright.      Identical   with    S.    B.    97.      Benson. 

S.  B.  38.  Benson.  Adding  a  new  section  to  be  numbered 
9a  to  an  Act  approved  April  5,  1911,  to  amend  an  Act  known 
as  "The  Building  and  Loan  Commission  Act,"  and  amended 
by  an  Act  approved  December  18,  1911,  relating  to  the  powers 
and  duties  of  the  Building  and  Loan  Commissioner;  makes 
it  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  of  not  more  than  $500 
or  by  imprisonment  not  less  than  10  nor  more  than  90  days 
or  both,  for  any  officer  or  director  of  a  building  and  loan 
association  to  refuse  to  comply  with  the  demand  of  the  Com- 
missioner for  possession  of  the  property  and  assets,  and  em- 
powering the  Commissioner  to  call  a  peace  officer  to  enforce 
his   demands. 

A.    B.    51.      Wrtght      Identical    with    S.    B.    38.      Benson. 

CAPITAL     AND     LABOR. 

S.  B.  483.  Crowley.  Providing  for  the  enforcement  of 
labor  laws  of  the  State  of  California  by  the  Commissioner  of 
the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

Confers  authority  upon  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics  to  enforce  any  and  all  labor  laws,  the  en- 
forcement of  which  is  not  specifically  vested  in  any  other 
officer,  board  or  commission,  and  clothing  the  deputies  and 
agents  of  such  commissioner  with  the  power  and  authority 
of  sheriffs  and  other   peace   officers   to   make   arrests,    etc. 

A.  B.  505.     Wright.     Identical  with  S'.  B.  483.     Crowley. 

A.  B.  842.  Gelder.  To  make  lawful  certain  agreements 
between  employees  and  laborers,  and  to  limit  the  issuing  of 
injunctions   in   certain   cases. 

Provides  that  it  shall  not  be  unlawful  for  persons  employed 
or  seeking  employment  to  enter  into  any  arrangements  or 
agreements  with  a  view  of  lessening  the  hours  of  labor  or 
of  increasing  their  wages,  and  no  restraining  order  or  injunc- 
tion shall  be  granted  by  any  court  in  any  case  between  an 
employer  or  employees  growing  out  of  a  dispute  concerning 
terms  or  conditions  of  employment,  unless  such  order  or 
injunction  be  necessary  to  prevent  irreparable  injury  to  prop- 
erty or  property  rights  of  the  party  making  the  application. 
If  it  cannot  be  shown  that  irreparable  damage  to  property  is 
imminent,  no  injunction  shall  be  granted.  No  persons  who 
are  employed  or  seeking  employment  shall  be  indicted  or 
prosecuted  in  any  court  for  any  act  done  to  bring  about  an 
increase  in  pay  or  better  hours,  unless  that  act  is  in  itself 
unlawful. 

S.  B.  857.     Lyon.     Identical  with  A.   B.    842.     Gelder. 
i   A.   B.    64.     Ryan.     Providing  that  any  person,    firm,   associa- 
tion    or     corporation     or     agent,     superintendent     or     manager 


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thereof,  employing  special  agents,  detectives,  or  so-called 
spotters  shall,  before  disciplining  or  discharging  any  employee 
upon  a  report  by  such  special  agent,  detective,  or  so-called 
spotters,  give  notice  and  accord  a  hearing  to  such  employee 
upon  his  request  therefor,  and  providing  that  said  accused 
employee  shall  have  the  opportunity  to  be  confronted  with 
the  person  making  such  report,  and  shall  have  the  right  to 
furnish  testimony  in  his  own  defense;  violations  made  a  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $100  or  more 
than  $1000,  or  imprisonment  in  county  jail  for  not  more  than 
one  year  or  both.  In  case  of  an  association  or  corporation 
the  imprisonment  to  be  imposed  on  officers  or  agents  com- 
mitting   the    offense. 

S.  B.  402.  Flaherty.  To  prohibit  discrimination  against  em- 
ployees who  belong  to  or  join  any  labor  organization,  and  de- 
claring it  a  misdemeanor  so  to  do,  punishable  by  fine  of  not 
less  than  $100  or  more  than  $500,  or  imprisonment  not  less  than 
30  days  or  more  than  one  year,  or  both. 

A.  B.   474.     Godsil.     Identical  with  S.   B.   402.     Flaherty. 

8.  B.  438.  Finn.  To  prohibit  any  employer  from  discriminat- 
ing against  any  of  his  employees  on  account  of  engaging  in 
politics  or  running  for  public  office,  and  declaring  it  a  mis- 
demeanor to  do  so,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $100  or 
more  than  $500  for  each  offense,  recoverable  by  suit  in  the 
name  of  the  State,  but  no  prosecution  shall  be  commenced 
later  than  one  year  after  commission  of  offense.  Employee 
not   precluded   from   recovering  damages   from   employer. 

A.  B.  448.  Spengler.  To  promote  the  safety  of  employees  of 
electric  light,  power,  telephone  and  telegraph  plants  and  electric 
street  railways,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  violation 
thereof. 

A.  B.  656.  Downing.  Prohibiting  foremen,  superintendents, 
managers  or  other  agents  having  authority  to  employ  labor, 
from  charging  fees  for  giving  employment  to  any  person,  and 
declaring  violation  of  this  Act  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by 
fine  of  not  less  than  $25  or  more  than  $500,  or  by  imprison- 
ment not  less  than  15  days  or  more  than  six  months,  or  both. 

A.  B.  684.  Lyon.  To  forbid  managers,  superintendents, 
•foremen  and  other  persons  having  authority  from  their  re- 
spective employers  to  hire,  employ,  or  direct  the  services  of 
other  persons  in  such  employments,  to  demand  or  receive 
any  fee,  gift  or  other  remuneration  in  consideration  of  any 
such  hiring,  employment  or  permission  to  continue  to  perform 
work  or  services  in  such  employment;  and  to  provide  for  the 
enforcement  of  this  Act  by  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau 
of   Labor    Statistics. 

S.   B.  765.     Lyon.     Identical  with  A.  B.   6S4.     Lyon. 

A.    B.  -563.      Harris.      Prescribing    certain    requirements    with 


170  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

respect  to  the  qualifications  and  employment  of  workmen  and 
employees  engaged  in  certain  extra  hazardous  occupations, 
providing  penalties  for  violations  thereof,  and  providing  for 
the   enforcement  of  this  Act. 

Makes  it  unlawful  to  employ  or  permit  any  deaf  and  dumb 
person,  or  any  person  who  cannot  speak  and  understand  Eng- 
lish sufficiently  well  to  comprehend  any  rules  or  regulations 
governing  the  occupation  or  industry  in  which  they  may 
be  engaged,  or  to  understand  necessary  orders,  and  com- 
municate them  orally  in  English  to  others,  to  work  in  under- 
ground mines,  tunnels  and  excavations;  in  connection  with 
machinery  and  in  the  operation  of  underground  mines,  tunnels 
and  excavations;  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  steam, 
.  electric  and  other  trains,  and  locomotives,  engines,  motors, 
cars  or  other  vehicles  propelled  by  steam,  electricity  or  other 
motive   power; 

Any  person,  firm,  association  or  corporation  employing  a 
person,  or  any  person  accepting  employment,  contrary  to  this 
act,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of 
not  less  than  $10  nor  more  than  $300,  or  imprisonment  not 
more   (less?)    than   10  days  or  more  than  six   months,   or  both; 

Any  officer,  board  or  commission  charged  with  the  inspection 
or  supervision  of  hazardous  or  dangerous  occupations  is 
charged   with    enforcing   this   law. 

S.  B.  955.  Lyon,  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  20,  1903,  to  prevent  misrepresentations  of  conditions 
of  employment,  making  it  a  misdemeanor  to  misrepresent  the 
same  and  providing  penalties  therefor. 

S.  B.  505.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  9  of  an  Act  approved 
March  3,  1883,  as  amended,  to  establish  and  support  a  bureau 
of  labor  statistics,  relating  to  deputies  of  Labor  Commissioner. 

S.  B.  984.  Lyon.  Amending  Sections  9  and  10  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  3,  1883,  to  establish  and  support  a  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics,  relating  to  deputies  and  offices  of  commis- 
sioner,  and   salaries   of  commissioner,   deputies   and   employees. 

CATTLE,    HORSES    AND    LIVESTOCK. 

S.  B.  682.  Flint.  To  provide  for  the  branding,  marking, 
buying,  selling,  handling,  breeding,  importing,  inspection,  arid 
general  care  of  all  kinds  of  cattle,  horses,  mules,  hogs,  sheep, 
and  all  other  kinds  of  live  stock  now  in  or  that  may  hereafter 
be  brought  into  the  State  Of  California;  to  prevent  the  im- 
portation into  the  State  of  California  of  all  or  any  of  the 
aforesaid  until  the  same  have  been  inspected  for  diseases;  to 
provide  for  certificates  of  inspection  to  be  attached  to  waybills 
when  such  live  stock  are  transported  by  train  or  other  com- 
mon carrier  into  this  State,  and  for  certificates  of  inspection. 
to  be  given  t6  arid  retained  by  ariy  person  drivirig  or  iri  any 


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way  transporting  such  live  stock  into  this  State  other  than 
by  common  carrier,  and  for  such  certificates  of  inspection  to 
be  given  to  and  retained  by  any  person  driving  or  in  any  way 
transporting  such  live  stock  along  or  upon  the  public  high- 
ways of  this  State;  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  all  fees 
of  inspection  and  other  acts  to  be  performed  under  the  terms 
of  this  Act;  to  provide  for  the  various  fines  and  punishments 
for  the  violation  of  any  or  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act; 
and,  repealing  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in  any  way  in  con- 
flict herewith,  which  said  Acts  and  part$  of  Acts  are  in  this 
Act   specifically   mentioned. 

A.    B.    1115.     Fish.     Identical   with   S.    B.    682,    Flint. 

S.  B.  737.  Colin.  Amending  Sections  3,  4,  7  and  9  of  an  Act, 
approved  May  1,  1911,  to  regulate  the  public  service  of  stallions 
and  jacks  in  the  State  of  California,  and  by  adding  a  new 
section  there  to  be  known  and  numbered  Section  11^,  all 
relating  to  the  licensing  of  stallions  and  jacks,  and  providing 
for  jthe  reporting  of  the  collection  of  fees  to  the  State  Controller 
and  the  creation  of  a  fund  to  be  known  as  the  stallion  registra- 
tion board  contingent  fund. 

A.    B.    895.      Gebhart.     Identical   with   S.    B.    737.      Conn. 

S.  B.  434.  Crowley.  To  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  the  sup- 
pression and  prevention  of  the  spread  of  contagious  and  in- 
fectious diseases  among  domestic  animals;  and  providing  for 
the  inspection  of  meat  and  meat  food  products  offered  for  sale 
within  the  State  of  California;  and  making  an  appropriation 
for  the  purposes  of  this  Act. 

Creates  board  of  live  stock  commissioners,  to  be  composed 
of  one  practical  live  stock  man,  one  doctor  of  medicine,  and  one 
practical  butcher,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor;  also  pro- 
vides for  ihe  appointment  by  the  Governor  of  a  competent 
veterinary  surgeon  as  State  veterinarian;  a  practical  butcher, 
as  State  market  inspector,   to  carry  out  provisions  of  Act. 

A.   B.   523.     Canepa.     Identical  with   S.   B.   434.     Crowley. 

S.  B.  744.  Benson  (by  request).  To  provide  for  the  protection 
of  breeders  and  growers  of  live  stock  from  theft,  for  registra- 
tion of  brands,  butchers  and  slaughter  houses,  and  the  in- 
spection of  live  stock  and  the  hides   thereof. 

S.  -B.  435.  Crowley.  To  define  the  duties  of  railroad,  steam- 
boat, transportation  and  stock  yards  companies  under  procla- 
mation of  the  Governor,  scheduling  territory  on  account  of 
splenic  or  Texas   fever  among  cattle. 

Requires  all  railroad,  steamboat  and  transportation  com- 
panies transporting  cattle  from  scheduled  territory  into  or 
through  this  -State  to  state  in  bill  of  lading  point  whence 
cattle  were  originally  shipped  or  derived;  requires  cars  or 
quarters  of  such  cattle  to  be  disinfected  immediately  following 
unloading;  such  cattle  to  be  unloaded  in  separate  pens,  and  all 


172  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

stock   yards   shall   set   apart    certain   parts   of   their   yards    for 
such   cattle;   violation   punishable   by  fine   not   exceeding   $1000. 

A.  B.  522.  Canepa.  Identical  with  S,  B.  435.  Crowley. 
S.  B.  555.  Scott.  Identical  with  A.  B.  220.  Tabler. 
S.  B.  5'36.  Conn.  To  prevent  the  importation  into  the  State 
'of  California  of  horses,  mules,  dairy  cattle  and  breeding  bulls 
which  are  affected  with  communicable  diseases,  providing  for 
the  inspection  or  certificaton  of  such  animals  before  being 
brought  into  the  State  of  California,  exempting  certain  ani- 
mals from  such  inspection,  or  certification,  providing  penalties 
Yor  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  repealing 
an  Act  approved  June  4,  1913,  to  prevent  the  importation 
into  the  State  of  California  of  horses,  mules,  asses,  or  cattle 
which  are  affected  with  any  infection  or  contagious  disease; 
to  provide  for  the  inspection  of  such  animals  before  they  are 
brought  into  the  State;  to  repeal  an  Act,  approved  March 
7,  1911,  to  prevent  the  importation  of  neat  cattle  for  dairy 
Or  breeding  purposes  affected  with  tuberculosis  into  the  State 
of  California,  and  to  repeal  an  Act,  approved  March  7,  1911, 
to  -prevent  the  importation  of  horses,  mules  and  asses  affected 
with   glanders   into   the   State  of  California. 

A,   B.   603.     Gebhart.-     Identical  with   S.   B.   536.     Conn. 

S.  B.  535.  Conn.  Amending  Sections  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  ll/2  and  8 
of  an  Act  to  protect  domestic  live  stock  from  contagious  and 
infectious  diseases,  to  provide  for  the  appointment  and  duties 
of  officials  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and 
to  provide  an  appropriation  therefor,  which  became  a  law 
March  18,  1899,  and  as  amended  March  20,  1905,  and  March  23, 
1907,  and  as  further  amended  March  19,  1909,  and  adding  a 
new  section  thereto  to  be  numbered  Section  Ql/2,  and  repealing 
Section  7  thereof,  all  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  the 
State  veterinarian,  assistant  State  veterinarian  and  deputy 
State  veterinarians,  and  fixing  salaries,  and  prescribing  pen- 
alties for  violation  of  this  Act. 

A.    B.   604.      Gebhardt.     Identical  with   S.   B.   535.     Conn. 

S.  B.  1006.  Purkitt.  Prohibiting  the  preparation,  sale,  bar- 
ter, shipment  or  exchange  of  any  worthless,  contaminated, 
dangerous  or  harmful  hog  cholera  serum  or  virus;  requiring 
every  establishment  for  the  preparation  of  hog  cholera  serum 
or  virus  to  be  inspected  and  licensed  by  the  director  of  the 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia; and  providing  penalties  for  violation  of  any  of  the 
provisions   hereof. 

S.  B.  1008.  Purkitt.  Amending  Sections  2,  3  and  7  of  an 
Act,  approved  April  21,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  preparation 
and  distribution  of  serums  or  vaccines  for  the  prevention  of 
the  disease:  known  as  cholera  in  hogs  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia,; marking  an  appropriation  therefor  and  prescribing  the 
duties  of  the  Controller  and  Treasurer  in  relation  thereto. 


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CEMETERIES. 

-      (See  also   Civil  Code.) 

S.  B.  51.  Finn.  Regulating  the  opening,  widening  and  clos- 
ing of  roads  and  paths  and  the  disinterment  of  bodies  in 
cemeteries  which  have  been  transferred  to  cities  or  cities  and 
Counties  and  which  are  held  by  them  in  trust  for  the  purpose 
of   maintaining   said   cemeteries   forever  as   public   parks. 

Places  in  hands  of  board  or  officer  having  charge  of  ceme- 
tery so  dedicated  the  opening  of  new  roads  or  widening  of 
old  ones,  bodies  disinterred  for  the  purpose  to  be  reinterred; 
plot  holders  may  compel  the  officer  to  show  necessity  for  open- 
ing of  road.  Lot  owners  may  remove  remains  upon  payment 
of  fee,  shall  remove  all  monuments,  etc.;  Act  does  not  confer 
right  upon  board  or  officer  to  remove  any  bodies  from  ceme- 
tery   or    park. 

;A.  B.  124.  McDonald,  W-.  A.  Identical  with  S.  B.  51.  Finn. 
•  S.  '*B. '  5"2.  Finn.  Authorizing  a  cemetery  corporation  or 
association  to  transfer  its  land  and  certain  funds  to  the  city, 
or  city  and  county  within  which  cemetery  land  is  located 
whenever  further  burials  in  such  land  shall  be  prohibited; 
and  to  authorize  said  city  or  city  and  county  to  accept  and 
execute  a  trust  in  relation  to  such  property  for  the  purpose 
of  maintaining  said  land  forever  as  a  public  park,  to  provide 
for    the   carrying   into    effect   of   the   purposes    in    this   Act. 

A.   B.   127.     McDonald,  W.  A.     Identical  with  S.   B.   52.     Finn. 

S.  B.  53.  Finn.  Providing  compensation  to  lot  owners  who 
have  removed  bodies,  monuments  and  mortuary  emblems  from 
their  lots  in  any  cemetery  the  title  of  which  shall  have  been 
transferred  to  the  city  or  city  and  county  in  which  it  is 
located  in  trust  for  the  purpose  of '  maintaining  such  ceme- 
tery forever  as  a  public  park;  to  authorize  such  city  or  city 
and  county  to  pay  such  compensation;  and  to  provide  the 
means  and  the  procedure  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of  this 
Act.; ;  J; . 

A.   B.   125,     McDonald,  W.  A.     Identical  with  S.  B.   53.     Finn. 

g,  B.  54.  Finn.  Repealing  an  Act  approved  April  24,  1911, 
providing  for  the  removal  of  human  remains  from  cemeteries 
in  any  city,  or  city  and  county  in  this  State,  and  repealing 
all  Acts   in  .conflict   therewith. 

A.  B.  126,     McDonald,  W.  A.     Identical  with  S.  B.  54.     Finn. 

A.  B.  646.  Conrad.  To  provide  for  the  conservation  and 
protection  of  trust  funds  held  by  cemetery  corporations  for 
perpetual  care  of  cemetery  lots   and   grounds.  • 

Provides  that  whenever  any  part  of  prices  of  cemetery  lots 
shall,  be  by  terms  of  contract  of  sale  or  provisions  of  by-laws 
or  rules  of .  any  cemetery  corporation,  set. apart  for  perpetual 
care-,  improvement,     embellishment,   or  .preservation  ;  of    such 


174  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

cemetery  or  burial  lots  and  grounds  where  located,  principal 
is  declared  a  perpetual  trust  fund,  to  be  invested  at  interest 
in  securities  and  preserved  intact  perpetually;  interest  and 
income  to  be  devoted  to  such  perpetual  care,  etc;  Superintend- 
ent of  State  Banking  Department  to  require  from  each  ceme- 
tery corporation  on  or  before  October  1st  of  each  year  reports 
of  condition  and  investments  of  such  trust  funds,  which  re- 
ports shall  be  verified  by  oath  of  president,  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  corporation  making  same;  wilful  and  fraudulent 
mistatements  declared  a  misdemeanor;  fee  for  filing  such 
report  $10;  Superintendent  of  Banks  to  have  power  of  visita- 
tion over  any  cemetery  corporation,  to  examine  condition  and 
investment  of  such  trust  funds;  if  upon  any  report  or  exam- 
ination it  be  found  that  any  part  of  principal  of  such  trust 
funds  has  been  lost  or  impaired  or  invested  contrary  to  law, 
such  corporation  shall  be  directed  to  make  good  any  such  loss, 
impairment  or  unlawful  investment,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful 
for  such  corporation  to  pay  any  portion  of  proceeds  of  sales 
Of  any  burial  lots  or  any  dividends  or  profits  to  any  member 
or  stockholder  so  long  as  order  remain  uncomplied  with;  every 
violation  of  this  prohibition  declared  a  misdemeanor;  also 
declared  a  misdemeanor  for  any  director  or  other  officer  to 
use  or  borrow  any  portion  of  such  trust  fund,  punishable  by 
fine  not  to  exceed  $500  or  by  imprisonment  not  to  exceed  1 
year,  or  both,  and  any  director  or  officer  who  by  violation 
hereof  causes  loss  to  trust  fund  becomes  civilly  liable  for 
amount  of  such  loss,,  together  with  reasonable  attorney  fees, 
to  be  recovered   as  provided   in  Section  613,   Civil  Code. 

S.  B.  866.  Scott.  Providing  for  the  abandonment  and  dis- 
posal of  portions  of  cemeteries  and  cemetery  lands,  by  ceme- 
tery corporations  or  other  owners,  the  removal  of  human  re- 
mains  therefrom  and   repealing  all  Acts   in   conflict   therewith. 

Provides  that  cemetery  corporation  or  person  owning,  in 
possession  or  in  charge  of  cemeteries  shall  have  power  to  re- 
move human  remains  and  have  them  interred  or  deposited 
elsewhere,  and  to  abandon  such  cemetery  or  part  thereof,  and 
to  cause  the  real  property  to  be  improved,  sold  or  otherwise 
disposed  of  in  compliance  with  this  Act. 

Subsequent  to  the  requirement  for  and  prior  to  actual  re- 
moval of  human  remains  from  the  cemetery,  any  cemetery 
corporation  by  resolution  of  its  board  of  directors,  or  the 
owner  of  any  land  used  as  a  cemetery  by  declaration  of  in- 
tention so  to  do,  determine  to  voluntarily  abandon  such  ceme- 
tery which  resolution  or  declaration  of  intention  shall  specify 
the  date  on  or  after  which  the  remains  will  be  removed;  notice 
of  the  proposed  removal  shall  be  given  publication  in  a  news- 
paper; the  notice  shall  contain  a  copy  of  the  resolution  or 
declaration   of   intention,    and   shall   specify   that   any   relative 


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or  friend  of  any  person  buried  in  such  cemetery  may  remove 
the  remains  at  any  time  prior  to  the  removal  thereof  by  the 
corporation  or  owner,  upon  delivery  to  the  corporation  of  an 
affidavit  stating  the  name  of  the  person  whose  remains  are 
to  be  removed,  the  date  of  burial,  and  the  names  of  the 
heirs  at  law,  the  written  consent  of  a  majority  of  whom  shall 
be  required  in  case  the  person  desiring  to  remove  the  remains 
is  not  an  neir  at  law. 

Within  30  days  after  the  first  publication,  a  copy  of  the 
notice  shall  be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  ceme- 
tery, and  a  copy  mailed  to  very  lot  owner  or  holder  whose 
name  appears  upon  the  records  of  the  cemetery,  and  to 
every  person  who  prior  to  the  date  of  the  resolution  or 
declaration  shall  have  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  recorder 
of  the  county  or  city  and  county  the  verified  statement  pro- 
vided in  an  Act  approved  April  24,  1911,  providing  for  the  re- 
moval   of    human    remains    from    cemeteries. 

Upon  compliance  with  these  requirements  the  cemetery  cor- 
poration or  owner  shall  at  or  after  the  date  fixed  in  the  reso- 
lution or  declaration  of  intention  have  power  to  cause  the 
removal  of  all  human  remains  interred  in  such  cemetery  and 
to  cause  their  re-interment  without  further  notice  to  any 
person.  Upon  request  of  any  relative  or  friend  desiring  to  be 
present  at  the  disinterment  the  cemetery  corporation  or  owner 
shall  give  written  notice  at  least  10  days  prior  thereto  of  the 
date  when  the   remains  will  be  disinterred. 

The  owner  of  any  burial  lot  may  cause  the  removal  of  all 
the  remains  interred  therein  without  filing  any  affidavit  or 
consent.  In  the  event  of  the  death  of  the  grantee  of  any 
cemetery  lot,  the  affidavit  of  any  heir  at  law  to  whom  title 
to  the  lot  may  have  passed  shall  be  accepted  as  sufficient 
evidence   of  the  transfer   of  such  title. 

Remains  disinterred  by  the  cemetery  corporation  shall  be 
re-interred  in  a  separate  grave  or  may  be  deposited  in  a 
mausoleum  or  columbarium  in  a  separate  compartment,  marked 
with  the  name  of  the  person  whose  remains  are  therein  in- 
terred or  deposited.  When  remains  are  removed  by  relatives 
or  friends,  the  persons  causing  the  removal  shall  have  power 
to  remove  any  monument,  headstone,  coping  or  other  improve- 
ment, but  any  monument,  etc.,  remaining  on  any  lot  for  more 
than  ninety  days  after  removal  of  remains  shall  become  the 
property   of   the    cemetery    corporation    or   owner. 

The  cemetery  corporation  shall  have  power  to  use  any  money 
in  its  treasury  to  defray  the  expenses  of  abandonment  and 
removal,  including  the  acquisition  of  a  new  place  of  burial  or 
deposit,  the  expense  of  disinterment,  transportation  and  re- 
interment, and  removal  and  disposal  of  monuments,  etc.,  and 
the  expense  of  opening,  grading  arid  sewering  streets,   placing 


176'  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

gas,  water  and  other  pipes  and  conduits  or  poles  therein,  and 
otherwise  improving  the  property.  The  cemetery  corporation 
may  subdivide  any  new  place  of  burial,  mausoleum  or  colum- 
barium acquired  by  it,  and  dispose  of  lots  or  burial  places  to 
purchasers,  and  may  accept  in  payment  full  or  partial  releases 
from  members  in  or  to  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  assets  of 
the  corporation  except  the  lot  or  niche  conveyed  to  them. 

Any  land  from  which  all  human  remains  have  been  removed 
may  be  improved  and  sold,  after  first  obtaining  from  the 
Superior  Court  an  order  of  sale  as  provided  in  Section  15  of 
the  Civil  Code. 

Such  corporation  if  it  have  funds  in  its  treasury  not  required 
for  other  purposes  may  set  aside  a  sufficient  sum  for  the 
perpetual  or  other  care  or  improvement  of  lands,  etc.,  where 
remains  may  be  reinterred,  or  may  transfer  funds  to  some 
other  corporation  for  that  purpose  after  first  obtaining  per- 
mission   from    the    Superior    Court   after   publication    of    notice. 

In  case  of  cemeteries  owned  or  controlled  by  religious  or- 
ganizations no  remains  may  be  removed  except  in  accordance 
with  the  rules,  regulations  and  discipline  of  such  religious 
organization. 

All  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  herewith  and  particu- 
larly Sections  2,  3,  4  and  6  of  an  Act  approved  April  24,  1911, 
providing  for  the  removal  of  human  remains  from  cemeteries, 
are  hereby  repealed.  (S.  B.  323.  Boynton.  Pending  Legisla- 
tion,   1913,   p.   293.) 

A.  B.  1278.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Identical  with 
S.   B.   866.     Scott. 

S.  B.  867.  Scott.  Relating  to  the  borrowing  of  money  by 
cemetery  corporations  and  the  giving  of  security  therefor  by 
mortgage  or  conveyance  in  trust  of  real  estate. 

Cemetery  corporations  may  borrow  money  and  execute  deeds 
of  trust  or  mortgages  of  lands  held  by  them  upon  order  from 
the  Superior  Court,  after  proper  publication  of  notice,  and  it 
appearing  to  the  court  that  the  lands  are  not  needed  for  burial 
purposes,  and  that  it  is  for  the  best  interests  of  the  corpora- 
tion that  the  money  be  borrowed  and  secured  by  mortgage  or 
deed  of  trust;  any  member  of  the  corporation  may  oppose  the 
granting  of  the  order  by  affidavit  or  otherwise.  (S.  B.  324. 
Boynton.      Pending   Legislation,    1913,    p.    295.) 

A.  B.  1279.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Identical  with 
S.   B.   867.     Scott. 

A.  B.  1121.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Act 
to  amend  an  Act  to  authorize  the  incorporation  of  Rural 
Cemetery  Associations,  approved  April  28,  1859,  and  to  author- 
ize the  owners  of  lots  in  such  cemeteries  to  transfer  them  by 
deed,  approved  March  81,-1891,  and  giving  to  lot  owners 
authority  to  sell  -and .  convey  title  to  lots  in  such  cemeteries; 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  177 

CHARITIES    AND    CORRECTION. 

A.  B.  232.  Hawson.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  approved 
March  25,  1903,  and  amended  May  1,  1911,  to  create  a  State 
Board  of  Charities  and  Corrections,  prescribing  its  duties  and 
powers  and  appropriating  money  therefor,  relating  to  compen- 
sation of  members  of  board. 

S.  B.  888.  Breed.  To  provide  county  boards  of  charities 
and  corrections  and  to  define  the  powers  and  duties  thereof. 

Upon  petition  of  100  electors  of  county  judge  or  judges  of 
Superior  Court  shall  appoint  seven  persons,  not  more  than 
four  of  whom  shall  be  of  the  same  sex,  as  a  county  board  of 
charities  and  corrections,  to  serve  without  compensation,  for 
term  of  four  years;  no  person  connectetd  officially  with  any 
charitable  or  correctional  institution  in  the  county  supported 
at  public  expense.  Board  shall  meet  quarterly,  and  as  much 
oftener  as  necessary;  at  least  once  each  quarter  and  as  much 
oftener  as  may  be  necessary  they  shall  inspect  the  county 
hospital,  the  county  infirmary  or  relief  home  for  aged,  the 
county  jail,  each  jail  or  lock-up  in  the  county,  and  any  other 
charitable  or  correctional  institution  receiving  support  from 
county  funds;  they  shall  ascertain  condition  of  each  depart- 
ment as  to  effective  and  economical  administration,  cleanli- 
ness, discipline  and  comfort  of  inmates,  etc.;  they  shall  study 
rules  of  board  of  supervisors  for  government  of  institutions 
and  ascertain  whether  same  are  being  complied  with,  and 
shall  make  such  suggestions  as  to  improved  administration  as 
they  think  proper  to  persons  in  charge  of  such  institutions  and 
may  report  to  board  of  supervisors  any  facts  that  ought  to  be 
known  to  them,  and  if  they  find  conditions  in  such  institutions 
injurious  to  county  or  to  the  inmates  or  contrary  to  good 
order  or  public  policy,  they  shall  so  notify  the  board  of  super- 
visors or  other  officials  having  jurisdiction.  A  report  in  writ- 
ing shall  be  made  quarterly  to  the  grand  jury,  and  if  none  to 
the  district  attorney  for  presentation  to  grand  jury  as  soon 
as  sworn;  and  a  report  shall  be  made  annually  to  judges  of 
Superior  Court  which  shall  be  filed  as  public  document  with 
county  clerk;  and  copies  of  all  reports  to  board  of  supervisors 
or  judges  of  Superior  Court  shall  be  transmitted  to  State 
Board  of  Charities  and  Corrections.  Board  of  supervisors 
shall  appropriate  not  to  exceed  $50  annually  for  expenses  for 
said  board. 

A.    B.    1081.      Gelder.      Identical   with    S.    B.    888.      Breed. 

CHILD     LABOR. 

A.  B.  388.  McDonald.  Amending  an  Act  approved  February 
20,  1905;  approved  April  14,  1911;  approved  June  2,  1913,  regu- 
lating the  employment  and  hours  of  labor  of  children;  pro- 
hibiting  the' employment   of   minors'  under   certain   ages;    pro- 


178  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

habiting-  the  employment  of  certain  illiterate  minors;  providing 
for  the  enforcement  hereof  by  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics  and  providing  penalties  for  the  violation 
thereof;  providing  for  physical  examination  of  minors,  pro- 
hibiting sweat  shop  work,  prohibiting  the  employment  of 
minors  under  certain  age  in  dangerous  occupations,  regulating 
street  trades  and  repealing  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  incon- 
sistent herewith. 

S.  B.  257.  Lyon.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  February 
20th,  1905;  approved  April  14th,  1911;  approved  June  2nd,  1913, 
as  amended,  regulating  the  employment  and  hours  of  labor 
of  children;  prohibiting  the  employment  of  minors  under  cer- 
tain ages;  prohibiting  the  employment  of  certain  illiterate 
minors;  providing  for  the  enforcement  hereof  by  the  Commis- 
sioner of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  and  providing  penal- 
ties for  the  violation  thereof;  and  providing  for  physical  ex- 
amination of  minors,  prohibiting  sweat  shop  work,  prohibiting 
the  employment  of  minors  under  certain  age  in  dangerous  oc- 
cupations, regulating  street  trades  and  repealing  all  Acts  and 
parts   of   Acts    inconsistent    herewith. 

CHILDREN. 
(See   Juvenile    Court;    Orphans    and    Indigent    Persons.) 

A.  B.  239.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  24,  1903,  amended  March  20,  1905,  amended 
April  21,  1911,  to  enforce  the  educational  rights  of  children 
and  providing  penalties  for  violation  of  the  Act,  relating  to 
the   age   of   school   children. 

S.  B.  735.  Strobridge.  Amending  Sections  1,  4,  5  and  6  of 
an  Act,  approved  March  24,  1903;  amended  March  20,  1905; 
amended  March  4,  1907;  amended  April  21,  1911,  to  enforce  the 
educational  rights  of  children  and  providing  penalties  for  viola- 
tion of  the  Act. 

S.  B.  1162.  Thompson.  Establishing  a  bureau  of  child  and 
animal  protection,  appropriating  $7500  therefor,  and  defining 
the  duties  thereof. 

Provides  that  the  State  Humane  Association  of  California 
shall  compose  the  bureau,  with  the  Governor,  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  and  Attorney-General  as  ex-officio  mem- 
bers. 

CIVIL     SERVICE. 

S.  B.  1166.  Gerdes.  Amending  an  Act  approved  June  16, 
1913,  to  provide  for  a  general  system,  based  upon  investigation 
as  to  merit,  efficiency  and  fitness,  for  appointment  to  and 
holding  during  good  behavior  of  office  and  employment  under 
State  authority  and,  in  that  behalf,  to  create  a  State  civil 
service    commission,    to    prescribe    its    powers    and    duties,    to 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  179  . 

make  the  wilful  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  a  mis- 
demeanor, to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent 
herewith  in  so  far  as  they  may  be  inconsistent  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act,  and  to  make  an  appropriation  therefor. 

S.  B.  864.  Scott.  Amending  Sections  2,  14  and  18  of  an  Act 
approved  June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  a  general  system,  based 
upon  investigation  as  to  merit,  efficiency  and  fitness  for  ap- 
pointment to  and  holding  during  good  behavior  of  office  and 
employment  under  State  authority  and,  in  that  behalf,  to 
create  a  State  civil  service  commission,  to  prescribe  its  powers 
and  duties,  to  make  the  wilful  violation  of  the  provisions  of 
this  Act  a  misdemeanor,  to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts 
inconsistent  herewith  insofar  as  they  may  be  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  make  an  appropria- 
tion therefor. 

S.  B.  207.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  5,  7  and  9  of  an 
Act,  approved  June  16,  1913,  providing  for  a  general  system, 
based  upon  investigation  as  to  merit,  efficiency  and  fitness, 
for  appointment  to  and  holding  during  good  behavior  of  office 
and  employment  under  State  authority  and,  in  that  behalf, 
to  create  a  State  Civil  Service  Commission,  to  prescribe  its 
powers  and  duties,  to  make  the  wilful  violation  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act  a  misdemeanor,  to  repeal  all  Acts  and 
parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith  in  so  far  as  they  be  in- 
consistent with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  make  an  ap- 
propriation therefor. 

S.  B.  740.  Gerdes.  Amending  Sections  9  and  14  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  a  general  system,  based 
upon  investigation  as  to  merit,  efficiency  and  fitness,  for 
appointment  to  and  holding  during  good  behavior  of  office  and 
employment  under  State  authority  and,  in  that  behalf,  to 
create  a  State.  Qivi.l  Service  Commission,  to  prescribe  its 
powers  and  duties,  to  make  the  wilful  violation  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act  a  misdemeanor,  to  repeal  all  Acts  and 
parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith  in  so  far  as  they  may 
be  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  make 
an  appropriation  therefor. 

COAL. 

A.    B.    265.      Satterwhite.      Regulating   the    sale    of   coal. 

Makes  it  a  misdemeanor  to  sell  the  output  of  one  mine  as 
the    product   of   another. 

S.  B.  473.     Breed.     Identical  with  A.  B.  265.     Satterwhite. 

A.  B.  569.  Satterwhite.  To  regulate  the  carriage  of  coal, 
and  to  provide  for  destination  weights  on  the  shipments  of 
coal,    providing   a   penalty   for   violation   thereof. 

True  weight  of  coal  shipped  over  any  common  carrier  must 
be  stated  in  bill  of  lading;  when  coal  arrives  at  destination 
carrier  shall  cause  same  to  be  weighed  at  nearest  track  scales 


180  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

and  shall  be  responsible  to  consignee  for  all  deficiencies  in 
weight,  less  natural  shrinkage;  failure  or"  refusal  of  carrier 
to  weigh  coal  at  destination  renders  it  liable  in  damages; 
any  agent,  servant  or  employee  of  a  carrier  failing  or  refusing 
to  weigh  coal,  or  who  makes  false  weights  thereof,  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than 
$50  nor  more  than  $100,  or  imprisonment  not  less  than  30  nor 
more  than  60  days,  or  both;  coal  brought  into  State  shall  be 
weighed  at  nearest  track  scales,  within  State,  to  State  line; 
in  case  of  contention  between  consignee  and  carrier  regarding 
shortage  of  coal  on  any  car,  car  shall  be  weighed  first  while 
leaded  and  then  empty  and  actual  gross  and  net  weight  as- 
certained, stencil  weight  of  any  car  marked  thereon  shall  not 
be  taken  in  any  case  as  true  weight  of  car. 

COLLECTION    AGENCIES. 

S.  B.  62.  Finn.  Relating  to  the  bonding,  of  collection  agen- 
cies, fixing  amount  and  time  of  bond.  and.  qualifications,  .and 
number  of  sureties  thereon,  terms  and  conditions  thereof  and 
prescribing  the  penalties  for  the  violation  of  any  of  the  pro- 
visions  thereof.  -       -         -        •'-'-     ...;..  ...     .. 

Provides  that  no  person,  partnership,  association  or  cor- 
poration, other  than  an  attorney-at-law,  bank -or  trust-  com-* 
pany,  shall  collect  or  receive  payment  for  others  of  an  in- 
debtedness, or  engage  in  this  State  in  soliciting  the  right  to 
collect  such,  unless  he  shall  have  on  file  with  the  Secretary 
of  State  a  bond  in  the  sum  of  $5000,-  good  for  one  year,  with 
two  sureties  who  shall  be  residents  and  owners  of  real  estate 
in  this  State.  (S.  B.  154.  Finn.  "Pending  Legislation  1913"," 
p.  -304.) 

S.  B.  1143.  Hans.  Relating  to  collection  agencies;  placing 
them  under  the  supervision  of  the  Bank  Commissioner;  pro- 
viding for  registration  and  licensing  the  same;  requiring  a 
bond  to  be  filed;  fixing  the  period  of  time  within  which  settle- 
ments are  to  be  made;  providing  a  penalty  for  violation  of  this 
Act. .:..... 

Collection  agencies  are  placed  under  supervision  of  Bank 
Commissioner  and  are  required,  before  beginning  business  to 
file  with  him  an  application  for  registration,  with  which  shall 
be  deposited  the  annual  license  fee,  together  with  a  bond,  in 
$5000;  if  upon  examination  it  is  found  that  said  agency  or 
any  of  its  officers  or  stockholders  has  not  at  any  time  de- 
faulted in  payment  of  collections  license  shall  issue,  which 
shall  be  "renewed  annually, .  application  for  renewal  to  state 
among  other  things  amount  of  collections  made  for  year  end- 
ing December  31  previous,  and  statement  of  total  amount  of 
collections  made  which  at  date  of  application  had  been  re- 
tained for  more  than  45  days  and  had  not  at  that  time  been 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  181 

paid  over  to  assignor,  accompanied  by  bond  equal  to  one- 
fourth  of  total  amount  of  collections  for  the  year,  and  the 
annual  license  fee;  if  agency  is  found  to  have  complied  with 
provisions  of  Act  license  shall  issue;  if  not,  no  license  shall 
issue,  and  Commissioner  shall  proceed  to  cause  sureties  to 
pay   defaulted   collections. 

Every  collection  agency  shall  within  45  days  after  making 
collection  notify  assignor,  and  pay  over  to  him  sum  collected, 
less  charges;  when  proof  submitted  to  Commissioner  that 
collection  agency  has  defaulted  in  payment  of  collections  after 
written  demand,  he  shall  serve  written  notice  on  such  agency 
that  it  shall  within  five  days  thereafter  pay  to  assignor  moneys 
collected,  or  appear  and  show  cause  why  bond  should  not  be 
forfeited  and  assignor  paid  from  proceeds;  if  agency  there- 
after neglects  or  refuses  to  pay  or  fails  to  show  good  cause 
as  to  non-payment,  Commissioner  shall  declare  license  re- 
voked and  bond  forfeited,  and  serve  notice  in  writing  on  sure- 
ties on  bond,  stating  facts  and  calling  on  them  to 'pay  amounts 
defaulted;  if  within  10  days  -  sureties  -make  no  payment  of 
amount  demanded  Commissioner  .shall  take  proceedings  to 
collect  on  bond,  and  all  moneys  derived  from  forfeiture  of 
bonds  shall  be  paid  into  State  Treasury  to  credit  of  "Collection 
Agency  Fund;"  and  from  that  fund  Commissioner  shall  issue 
order  to  assignor  on  State  Controller  for  amount  due  and 
Controller  shall  draw  warrant  therefor  and  Treasurer  shall 
pay  same;  any  collection  agency  violating  any  provisions  of 
this  Act  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

.  (See  Produce  Exchange  Commission.) 
S.  B.  4S0.  Duncan.  Defining  commission  merchants  and 
consignors;  providing  for  filing  of  bond  and  certificates  show- 
ing names  of  persons  doing  business  or  advertising  as  com- 
mission merchants,  requiring  records  of  all  consignments 
received  or  sold  be  kept  and  furnished,  and  providing  penalties 
for   the    violation    of   the    requirements    herein    contained. 

Defines  "commission  merchant"  as  any  person,  firm,  cor- 
poration, partnership,  association  or  copartnership  carrying 
on  or  advertising  as  carrying  on  the  business  of  commission 
merchant,  or  as  selling  or  receiving  for  purposes  of  sale,  pro- 
duce, goods  or  other  personal  property  on  commission.  "Con- 
signor" is  defined  as  including  any  person,  firm,  partnership, 
corporation,  or  association,  shipping  or  forwarding  produce, 
goods,  or  other  property  to  a  commission  merchant  to  be 
sold  on  commission. 

Commission  merchants  are  prohibited  from  engaging  in  that 
business  without,  first  filing  with  the  Secretary  of  State  a 
statement "  5n  "detail    showing    whether    said    commission    mer- 


182  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

chant  is  a  private  individual,  incorporation,  partnership  or 
association,  the  interest  of  all  persons  interested  in  the  busi- 
ness, with  the  name  and  address  of  each  person  in  full;  a 
bond  in  $5000  shall  be  filed  with  such  statement,  to  guarantee 
proper   conduct   of   the   business. 

A  record  in  detail  shall  be  kept  of  all  produce  received, 
with  the  name  of  consignor,  date  sold,  price  received,  and 
place  of  residence  or  business  address  of  the  purchaser, 
which  record  shall  be  open  to  inspection  of  any  consignor; 
and  requiring  return  to  be  made  to  consignor  on  all  sales 
within  five  days,  with  statement  Jn  detail  showing  all  facts 
to    be    kept    of    record. 

Violation  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $50  nor  more 
than  $300,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  exceeding  six  months, 
or  both.  Nothing  in  Act  shall  be  deemed  to  prevent  prosecu- 
tion of  commission  merchant  or  other  person  for  embezzle- 
ment or  other  felony  or  misdemeanor. 

COMMON     CARRIERS. 

(See  Railroads.) 

S.  F.  206.  Benedict.  Declaring  certain  persons  or  corpora- 
tions engaged  in  the  transportation  of  passengers  for  hire  to 
•be  common  carriers  and  subject  to  the  provisions  of  an  Act 
known  as  the  "Public  Utilities  Act  of  the  State  of  California", 
approved   December  23,    1911,   as   amended  June   14,    1913. 

Declares  every  person  or  corporation  operating  a  motor 
vehicle  or  automobile  on  highways  for  transportation  of  per- 
sons for  hire  a  common  carrier,  subject  to  provisions  of 
"Public  Utilities  Act". 

A.  B.  394.  Gelder.  Making  it  the  duty  of  every  common  car- 
rier and  operator  of  a  motor  or  other  vehicle,  upon  the  hap- 
pening of  any  accident,  and  any  person  injured  as  a  result  of 
any  accident,  to  file  a  list  of  the  names  and  addresses  of  all 
witnesses  to  any  such  accident  with  the  county  clerk  of  the 
county  in  which  such  accident  occurred;  providing  that  no  per- 
son, whose  name  is  not  contained  in  such  list,  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  testify  in  any  action  at  law  arising  out  of  such  ac- 
cident,  except  under  certain  circumstances. 

A.  B.  .13.51.  Brown,  H.  W.  Regulating  the  transportation  of 
passengers  by  common  carriers,  and  railway  companies,  and 
io  compel  such  common  carriers  and  railway  companies  to 
provide  seats  for  all  passengers  carried,  and  fixing  a  penalty 
tor  failure  to  so  provide  seats. 

CONSERVATION    COMMISSION. 

(See    also    Forests    and    Forestry;    Water    and    Water    Rights; 

Civil  Code.) 

A.  B.  367.    Dennett.    In  relation  to  Act  of  Congress  known  as 

the   Carey  Act,    and  all  Acts   amendatory  thereof  and  supple- 


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mental  thereto,  and  governing  the  State  Conservation  Commis- 
sion in  the  control  of  the  selection,  management  and  disposal 
of  all  lands  granted  the  State  under  the  provisions  thereof. 

S.   B.   441.     Luce.     Identical  with  A.   B.   367.     Dennett. 

A.  B.  1191.  Johnson.  Authorizing  the  Conservation  Commis- 
sion of  the  State  of  California  to  examine,  classify  and  ap- 
praise the  unsold  school  lands  of  the  State  of  California  and 
appropriating   $10,000   therefor. 

S.  B.  1014.  Luce.  To  authorize  the  conservation  commis- 
sion of  the  State  of  California  to  examine,  classify  and  ap- 
praise the  unsold  school  lands  of  the  State  of  California,  and 
appropriating    $10,000    therefor. 

CONTAINERS. 

A.  B.  240.  Scott,  F.  C.  Revising  and  amending  Sections  3, 
5,  6  and  12,  of  the  Act  of  the  Legisltaure  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia entitled,  "The  Net  Container  Act",  approved  May  24th, 
1  r»l  4 . 

S.    B.    218.      Scott.      Identical   with    A.    B.    240,    Scott. 

A.  B.'  1100.  Rodgers.  To  regulate  the  sale  of  packages, 
cartons,  cans,  boxes,  commodities  and  containers  of  all  kinds, 
with  the  name  and  address  of  the  original  manufacturer 
thereof,  providing  for  the  enforcement  of,  and  providing  for 
penalties   for   the   violation   of   the   provisions   of   this   Act. 

CONTRACTS,    STATE. 

S.  B.  877.  Luce.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  8  and  9 
of  an  Act  approved  March  22,  1909,  to  regulate  contracts  on 
behalf  of  the  State  in  relation  to  the  erection,  construction, 
alteration,  repair  or  improvement  of  any  State  structure, 
building,  road,  or  other  State  improvement  of  any  kind,  and 
to  repeal  an  Act  approved  March  28,  1876,  to  regulate  contracts 
On   behalf  of  the   State   in   relation   to   erections  and   buildings. 

A.    B.    1194.      Scott,    F.    C.      Identical   with   S.    B.    877,   Luce. 

S.  B.  147.  Scott.  Adding  Section  4  (new)  to  an  Act  approved 
March  28,  1876,  approved  March  22,  1909,  to  regulate  contracts 
on  behalf  of  the  State  in  relation  to  the  erection,  construction, 
alteration,  repair  or  improvement  of  any  kind  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  regulate  contracts  on  behalf  of  the 
State  in  relation  to  erection  of  buildings." 

Provides  that  all  work  done  for  State  of  California  under 
provisions  of  Act  wherein  brick,  stone,  terra  cotta  or  concrete 
is  used  shall  not  be  accepted  until  inspected  by  duly  appointed 
State  masonry  inspectors. 

A.   B.   300.     ScOtt,  F.  C.     Identical  with   S.   B.   147.     Scott. 

CORPORATION     LICENSE     TAX. 

A.   B.   402.     Br6wne.     Relating  to  revenue  and   taxation   pro- 


184  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

viding  for  a  license  tax  upon  corporations,  and  appropriating 
$27,000  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act. 
Restores  the  corporation  license  tax  with  the  following 
schedule  of  fees:  When  the  authorized  capital  stock  of  the 
corporation  does  not  exceed  ten  thousand  dollars  ($10,000)  the 
tax  shall  be  ten  dollars  ($10);  when  the  authorized  capital 
stock  exceeds  ten  thousand  dollars  ($10,000)  but  does  not  ex- 
ceed twenty  thousand  dollars  ($20,000)  the  tax  shall  be 
fifteen  dollars  ($15);  when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds 
twenty  thousand  dollars  ($20,000)  but  does  not  exceed  fifty 
thousand  dollars  ($50,000)  the  tax  shall  be  twenty  dollars  ($20); 
when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars ($50,000)  but  does  not  exceed  one  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars ($100,000)  the  tax  shall  be  twenty-five  dollars  ($25);  when 
the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars  ($100,000)  but  does  not  exceed  two  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars  ($250,000)  the  tax  shall  be  fifty  dollars  ($50); 
when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  two  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  ($250,000)  but  does  not  exceed  five  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  ($500,000)  the  tax  shall  be  seventy-five 
dollars  ($75);  when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  five 
hundred  thousand  dollars  ($500,000)  but  does  not  exceed  two 
million  dollars  ($2,000,000)  the  tax  shall  be  one  hundred  dol- 
lars ($100);  when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  two 
million  dollars  ($2,000,000)  but  does  not  exceed  five  million 
dollars  ($5,000,000)  the  tax  shall  be  two  hundred  dollars  ($200); 
when  the  authorized  capital  stock  exceeds  five  million  dollars 
($5,000,000)  the  tax  shall  be  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars 
($250). 

COUNTY  OFFICES  AND  OFFICERS, 

A.  B.  1224.  Fish.  Authorizing  the  transfer  of  certain  powers, 
duties  and  functions  of  certain  cities  and  officers  thereof  to 
the  officers  of  counties  in  which  any  such  city  is  located. 

DAY    OF     REST. 

S.    B.   91.     Lyon.     Providing  for  a  day  of   rest   from   labor. 

S.  B.  163.  Benson.  Providing  for  one  day  of  rest  in  seven, 
and  repealing  an  Act,  approved  February  27,  1893,  to  provide 
for  a  day  of  rest   from  labor. 

Defines  "day"  as  twenty-four  consecutive  hours,  which  may 
include  two  calendar  days;  "necessary  work"  as  work  that 
could "  not  have  been  done  on  preceding  day  and  could  not  be 
postponed  until  next  day;  "urgent  emergency"  as  immediate 
danger  to  life,  property,  public  safety  or  public  health  only. 

Makes  it  unlawful  to  require  any  employee,  apprentice,  ser- 
vant or  other  person  to  work  in  any  trade/  business,  profes- 
sion,- or   occupation  for    more    than   six   days   m   any   calendar 


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week  of  seven  days;  provided,  above  provisions  do  not  apply 
to  necessary  work  of  domestic  servants,  of  caring  for  live 
animals,  and  sick  or  suffering  persons,  of  making  yeast  or 
setting  sponge  in  bakeshops,  of  cases  of  urgent  emergency, 
or  to  any  work  that  the  Railroad  Commission  deems  necessary 
to  permit,  nor  shall  act  apply  to  railroad  employees  governed 
by  Act  of  Congress  approved  March  4,  1907,  limiting  hours  of 
service  of  employees  of  railroads.  Violation  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $10  or  more  than 
$300,  or  imprisonment  in  county  jail  not  to  exceed  30  days 
for  first  offense;  both  line  and  imprisonment  to  be  imposed 
for  subsequent  offenses;  Commissioner  of  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics  and    his   deputies   charged    with   enforcement. 

A.    B.   507.     Ferguson.     Identical  with   S.    B.   163.     Benson. 

S.   B.   520.     Flaherty.     Identical  with  S'.   B.   163.     Benson. 

A.  B.  506.  Ferguson.  To  provide  for  one  day  of  rest  in 
seven   for   public   employees. 

Makes  it  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than 
$25  nor  more  than  $300  to  hire,  employ  or  permit  any  person 
to  work  more  than  six  days  in  any  calendar  week  of  seven 
days,  except  in  case  of  emergency  in  which  there  is  immediate 
danger  to  life,  property,  public  safety  or  public  health. 

S.  B.  519.     Flaherty.     Identical  with  A.   B.   506.     Ferguson. 

S.  B.  1050.  Rush.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
February  27,  1893,  to  provide  for  a  day  of  rest  from  labor, 
providing  for  a  day  of  rest  for  employees  in  State  institutions. 

A.  B.  1358.  Spengler  (by  request).  To  provide  for  one  day 
in  seven  as  a  day  of  rest. 

DAIRIES    AND     DAIRY     PRODUCTS. 

S.  B.  582.  Kehoe.  To  promote  the  public  health;  to  prevent 
fraud  or  deception  in  the  sale  of  butter,  or  in  the  sale  of 
milk  or  cream  intended  for  butter  making,  when  any  of  such 
products  are  sold  on  the  basis  of  quality  or  grade;  to  fix 
and  define  standards  and  grades  for  milk  and  cream  intended 
for  butter  making;  to  fix  and  define  standards  and  grades  for 
butter;  to  regulate  the  buying  and  selling  of  butter  when  any 
such  buying  or  selling  is  on  the  basis  of  quality  or  grade;  to 
regulate  the  buying  and  selling  of  milk  and  cream  intended 
for  butter  making  when  any  such  buying  or  selling  is  on 
the  basis  of  quality  or  grade;  and  to  provide  for  the  enforce- 
ment of  its  provisions,  and  for  the  punishment  of  violations 
thereof. 

A.  B.  696.     Quinn.      Identical    with    S.    B.    582.      Kehoe. 

A.  B.  271.  Wills.  Amending  Section  7  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  10,  1905,  to  prevent  the  sale  of  dairy  products  from 
unhealthy  animals  and  produced  under  unsanitary  conditions; 
to  provide,  for  the   inspection  of  dairy  stock,   dairies,   factories 


186  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

for  the  production  of  dairy  products  and  places  where  dairy- 
products  are  handled  and  sold;  to  improve  the  quality  of  dairy 
products  of  the  State;  to  prevent  deception  in  the  sale  of 
dairy  products  and  to  appropriate  money  for  enforcing"  its 
provisions,    relating   to   the   duties   of   the   State   Dairy   Bureau. 

S.  B.  61.  Finn.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act  approved 
April  21,  1911,  to  prevent  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  dairy 
products  from  unhealthy  animals,  or  that  are  produced  under 
unsanitary  conditions;  to  prevent  deception  or  fraud  in  the 
production  and  sale  of  dairy  products,  and  in  the  manufac- 
ture and  sale  of  renovated  butter  and  oleomargarine;  to 
license  the  manufacture  of  renovated  butter,  and  oleomar- 
garine; to  regulate  the  business  of  producing,  buying  and 
selling  dairy  products,  oleomargarine,  renovated  or  imitation 
butter  and  cheese;  to  provide  for  the  enforcement  of  its  pro- 
visions and  for  the  punishment  of  violations  thereof,  and 
appropriating  money  therefor  and  to  repeal  Section  17  of 
an  Act  approved  March  4,  1897,  entitled  "An  Act  to  prevent 
deception  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  butter  and  cheese, 
to  secure  its  enforcement,  and  to  appropriate  money  therefor," 
and  to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with 
this   Act. 

S.  B.  960.  Finn.  Amending  Sections  5  and  29  of  an  Act, 
approved  April  21,  1911,  to  prevent  the  manufacture  or  sale 
of  dairy  products  from  unhealthy  animals,  or  that  are  pro- 
duced under  unsanitary  conditions;  to  prevent  deception  or 
fraud  in  the  production  and  sale  of  dairy  products,  and  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  renovated  butter  and  oleomargarine; 
to  license  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  renovated  butter  and 
oleomargarine;  to  regulate  the  business  of  producing,  buying 
and  selling  dairy  products,  oleomargarine,  renovated  or  imi- 
tation butter  and  cheese;  to  provide  for  the  enforcement  of 
its  provisions  and  for  the  punishment  of  violations  thereof, 
and  appropriating  money  therefor  and  to  repeal  Section  17 
of  an  Act  approved  March  4,  1897,  to  prevent  deception  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  butter  and  cheese,  to  secure  its 
enforcement,  and  to  appropriate  money  therefor,  and  to  repeal 
all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  this  Act. 

A.  B.  1047.  Quinn.  Amending  Section  7  of  an  Act  approved 
April  21,  1911,  to  prevent  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  dairy 
products  from  unhealthy  animals,  or  that  are  produced  under 
unsanitary  conditions;  to  prevent  deception  or  fraud  in  the 
production  and  sale  of  dairy  products,  and  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  renovated  butter  and  oleomargarine,   etc. 

A.  B.  1045.  Rigdon.  Amending  Sections  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14, 
15,  19,  20  and  24  of  an  Act  approved  April  21,  1911,  to  prevent 
the  manufacture  or  sale  of  dairy  products  from  unhealthy  ani- 


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mals,  etc.;  regulating  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  oleomar- 
garine. 

S.  B.  1165.  Rush.  Amending  Subdivisions  1  and  6  of 
Section  29  and  Section  30  of  an  Act  approved  April  21,  1911, 
to  prevent  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  dairy  products  from 
unhealthy  animals,  or  that  are  produced  under  unsanitary 
conditions;  to  prevent  deception  and  fraud  in  the  production 
and  sale  of  dairy  products,  and  in  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  renovated  butter  and  oleomargarine;  to  license  the  manu- 
facture and  sale  of  renovated  butter,  and  oleomargarine;  to 
regulate  the  business  of  producing,  buying  and  selling  dairy 
products,  oleomargarine,  renovated  or  imitation  butter  and 
cheese;  to  provide  "for  the  enforcement  of  its  provisions  and 
for  the  punishment  of  violations  thereof,  and  appropriating 
money  therefor,  and  to  repeal  Section  17  of  an  Act  approved 
March  4,  1897,  to  prevent  deception  in  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  butter  and  cheese,  to  secure  its  enforcement,  and  to 
appropriate  money  therefor,  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts 
of  Acts  inconsistent  with  this  Act,  and  adding  thereto  two 
new  sections  to  be  known  as  Section  30*4  and  Section  30^,  and 
to  improve  the  quality  of  dairy  products,  to  prevent  fraud  and 
deception  in  the  marketing  thereof,  and  to  establish  uniform 
standards  therefor. 

A.  B.  701.  Boude.  Amending  an  Act  approved  April  21, 
1911,  to  prevent  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  dairy  products 
from  unhealthy  animals,  or  that  are  produced  under  un- 
sanitary conditions;  to  prevent  deception  or  fraud  in  the 
production  and  sale  of  renovated  butter  and  oleomargarine; 
to  license  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  renovated  butter,  and 
oleomargarine;  to  regulate  the  business  of  producing,  buying 
and  selling  dairy  products,  oleomargarine,  renovated  or  imi- 
tation butter  and  cheese;  to  provide  for  the  enforcement  of 
its  provisions  and  for  the  punishment  of  violations  thereof, 
and  appropriating  money  therefor  and  to  repeal  Section  17 
of  an  Act  approved  March  4,  1897,  entitled  "An  Act  to  pre- 
vent deception  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  butter  and 
cheese,  to  secure  its  enforcement,  and  to  appropriate  money 
therefor,"  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  incon- 
sistent with  this  Act,  by  amending  Section  29  in  Subdivisions 
1  and  6,  and  Section  30,  and  by  adding  thereto  two  new  sec- 
tions to  be  numbered  30a  and  30b,  relating  to  the  enforce-, 
ment  of  uniform  standards  and  rules  to  be  observed  by  all 
persons,  firms,  or  corporations  dealing  with,  handling  or 
transporting  milk  or  cream  in  bottles,  cans  or  other  contain- 
ers, and  by  amending  the  title  of  this  Act;  to  repeal  all  Acts 
or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  this  Act. 

S.  B.  1174.  Kehoe  (by  request).  To  regulate  the  sale  of 
food  ingredients  which  are  in  part  composed  of  butter  shipped 


188  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

or  imported  into  the  State  of  California  from  any  point  or 
place  outside  of  the  United  States,  requiring  the  marking  of 
all  bills  of  fare  or  menu  cards  placed  on  tables  or  counters  in 
establishments,  preparing,  serving  or  offering  for  sale  any  such 
food,  and  fixing  penalties  for  the  violation  of  the  same  or  any 
of  the  provisions  thereof. 

S.  B.  1175.  Kehoe  (by  request).  To  regulate  the  sale  of 
butter  that  has  been  shipped  or  imported  into  the  State  of 
California  from  any  point  or  place  outside  of  the  United 
States,  requiring  the  marking  thereof  by  all  persons  selling 
or  offering  same  for  sale,  and  fixing  penalties  for  the  violation 
of  the  same  or  any  of  the  provisions  thereof. 

S.  B.  993.  Shearer.  To  regulate  the  sale' of  impure  and  un- 
wholesome  milk. 

A.  B.  238.  Marron.  Regulating  the  preparation  and  sale  of 
pasteurized  milk. 

Requires  the  cap  or  cover  of  container  of  pasteurized  milk 
to  be  marked  with  the  hour  and  date  of  pasteurization;  re- 
quires all  such  milk  to  be  offered  for  sale  or  sold  to  be  cooled 
immediately  after  pasteurization  and  sealed  in  sterilized  con- 
tainers; requires  such  milk  to  be  delivered  within  24  hours 
after  pasteurization;  forbids  pasteurization  a  second  time; 
failure  to  comply  with  law  misdemeanor,  penalty,  fine  of  not 
less  than  $100  nor  more  than  $300,  or  imprisonment  in  county 
jail  not  less  than  three  months  nor  more  than  one  year,  or  both. 

A.  B.  703.  Boude.  To  improve  the  milk  and  cream  supply 
of  incorporated  cities  and  of  the  cities  and  counties;  to  pro- 
mote sanitary  methods  in  the  production  and  marketing  there- 
of; to  establish  uniform  standards  therefor;  to  prevent  fraud 
and  deception  in  the  production  and  sale  thereof;  and  to  estab- 
lish municipal  milk  commissions  to  supervise  the  production 
and  marketing  of  milk  and  cream  in  said  cities,  and  cities  and 
counties. 

S.   B.   1177.     Rush.     Identical  with  A.   B.   703.     Boude. 

A.  B.  1475.  Hawson.  Amending  an  Act  approved  April  24* 
1911,  to  establish  a  standard  for  evaporated  milk  and  con- 
densed milk. 

DEAF    AND     BLIND. 
(See   Appropriations.) 

S.  B.  157.  Beban.  Establishing  the  California  State  Com- 
•mission  for  the  Blind,  of  five  persons,  to  be  appointed  by  the 
Governor;  providing  for  the  maintenance  of  a  register  of  the 
blind  and  a  bureau  of  information  and  industrial  aid,  and 
providing  for  home  teachers  along  industrial  lines;  also  to  co- 
operate with  the  State  Board  of  Health  for  the  prevention  of 
blindness;  and  appropriating  $12,000  to  carry  out  the  provisions 
of    this  Act. 

A.   B:   1034.     Hayes.     Identical"  with  S.  B.   157.     Beban. 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  189 

A.  B.  395.  Gebhart.  To  create  the  California  State  commis- 
sion for  the  blind;  defining  the  duties  thereof;  and  making  an 
appropriation  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Provides  for  appointment  by  Governor  within  100  days  after 
adjournment  of  Legislature  of  a  commission  for  the  blind,  of 
five  persons.  The  commission  shall  keep  a  register  of  all  blind 
persons  in  the  State,  with  a  description  of  cause  and  extent 
of  blindness  and  condition  of  such  persons,  strive  to  prevent 
blindness  and  co-operate  with  State  Board  of  Health  to  that 
end;  promote  a  comprehensive  education  and  special  training 
for  the  blind,  including  compulsory  education;  maintain  a 
bureau  of  information  of  employment  for  the  blind  and  aid  in 
marketing  their  products;  prepare  and  file  an  annual  report; 
and  appropriating  $6000  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  Act. 

A.  B.  315.  Encell.  Authorizing  the  directors  of  the  Cali- 
fornia School  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind  to  organize  separate 
departments  for  the  deaf  and  the  blind. 

S.  B.  471.     Breed.     Identical  with  A.  B.  315.     Encell. 

A.  B.  316.  Encell.  Providing  readers  for  blind  students  in 
the  University  of  California,  and  to  assist  deaf  students  at- 
tending the  National  College  for  the  Deaf  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

S.  B.   472.     Breed.     Identical  with  A.  B.   316.     Encell. 

S.  B.  948.  Tyrrell.  To  provide  for  the  prevention  of  blind- 
ness in  the  newly  born  by  fixing  the  duty  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health  in  regard  thereto,  and  compelling  doctors,  nurses 
and  midwives  to  treat  the  eyes  of  infants  in  a  certain  manner, 
and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  failure  so  to  do. 

A.  B.  718.  Prendergast.  To  prevent  blindness  from  ophthal- 
mia neonatorum;  to  vest  vertain  power  and  duties  in  the  State 
Board  of  Health  and  health  officers;  to  impose  certain  duties 
upon  physicians,  midwives,  nurses,  and  other  persons;  and 
to  provide  for  the  enforcement  of  this  Act,  and  the  repeal  of 
Chapter  XIV,  Statutes  of  1897,  entitled  "An  Act  to  regulate 
medical  practice,  to  prevent  blindness  in  infants,"  and  other 
Acts  in   conflict  herewith. 

S.   B.   758.     Jones.     Identical  with  A.   B.   718.     Prendergast. 

DEFENDER,   PUBLIC. 

(See  also   Legal   Aid.) 

S.  B.  142.  Lyon.  Creating  the  office  of  public  defender  in 
the  counties  of  California,  from  the  first  to  the  tenth  classes, 
inclusive,  to  provide  for  the  appointment  and  election  of  such 
officers,   and  prescribing  their  duties  and   compensation. 

Creates  for  counties  of  the  first  to  the  tenth  classes  the 
office  of  public  defender,  who  when  elected  or  appointed  shall 
have  been  a  practicing  attorney  in  all  courts  of  State  for  at 
least  three  years.  Within  30  days  after  Act  goes  into  effect, 
Governor  shall  appoint  in  counties  from  first  to  tenth  classes, 


190  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

inclusive,  some  suitable  person  as  public  defender,  who  shall 
hold  office  until  first  Monday  after  first  day  of  January,  1919; 
his  successor  to  be  elected  at  general  election  in  1918.  Act 
not  to  apply  to  counties  that  have  or  may  adopt  a  special 
county  charter  providing  for  public  defender.  Compensation 
in  counties  of  first,  second  and  third  classes,  in  which  public 
defender  to  devote  all  his  time  to  duties  of  office,  to  be  $3600 
per  annum;  in  fourth  to  tenth  classes,  inclusive,  $2400.  If  any 
county  in  which  office  of  public  defender  is  created  shall  here- 
after be  classified  differently  than  at  present,  office  shall  not 
be  abolished  thereby. 

Upon  request  by  defendant,  or  order  of  court,  public  de- 
fender shall  defend  without  expense  to  them,  all  persons 
charged  in  Superior  Court  with  any  contempt,  misdemeanor, 
felony,  or  other  offense,  who  are  not  financially  able  to  em- 
ploy counsel,  and  give  advice,  and  prosecute  appeals.  He  shall 
also  upon  request  prosecute  actions  for  collection  of  wages  and 
other  demands  of  persons  unable  to  employ  counsel,  in  cases 
where  sum  involved  does  not  exceed  $100,  and  in  which  in  his 
judgment  claims  are  valid  and  enforceable;  he  shall  also  upon 
request  defend  such  persons  in  all  civil  litigation,  in  which,  in 
his  judgment  they  are  being  persecuted  or  unjustly  harassed. 

Suitable  quarters  and  such  deputies,  clerks  and  employees 
as  are  necessary  to  properly  conduct  office,  shall  be  provided 
for  by  Board  of  Supervisors,  which  shall  fix  their  salaries. 
All  deputies,  clerks  and  employees  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
public  defender,  and  all  such  appointments  may  be  revoked 
by  him. 

A.  B.  620.  Harris.  To  authorize  the  creation  of  the  office 
of  public  defender  in  the  respective  counties,  cities  and 
counties,  and  municipalities  of  the  State  of  California,  to 
provide  for  the  appointment  or  election  of  such  officers,  and 
prescribing    their    duties    and    compensation. 

Authorizes  counties,  cities  and  counties  and  municipalities 
to  create  office  of  public  defender  and  requires  person  elected 
or  appointed  to  have  been  practicing  attorney  in  all  courts  of 
this  State  for  at  least  three  years  next  preceding  election  or 
appointment;  jurisdiction  shall  extend  to  all  courts  of  county, 
except  those  of  municipalities  having  public  defenders;  pro- 
vides for  fixing  of  compensation  of  public  defender  and  the 
appointment  and  compensation  of  deputies  and  assistants;  Act 
does  not  affect  appointment  or  election  of  any  public  de- 
fender heretofore  elected  or  appointed  in  any  county,  city 
and  county  or  municipality  that  has  adopted  or  may  here- 
after adopt  a  charter,  but  such  officer  shall  perform  duties 
under  provisions  of  this  Act  and  shall  have  same  powers  and 
duties  as  public  defenders  hereunder;  additional  duties  not  in 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  191 

conflict  with  this  Act  may  be  prescribed  by  the  political  sub- 
division establishing  the  office;  terms  fixed  at  four  years. 

Upon  request  of  defendant,  or  order  of  court,  public  de- 
fender shall  defend,  without  expense  to  them,  any  persons 
charged  in  Superior  Court  with  contempt,  misdemeanor,  fel- 
ony or  other  offense,  not  financially  able  to  employ  counsel, 
and  give  counsel  and  advice,  and  shall  prosecute  all  appeals 
in  their  behalf  where  in  his  opinion  appeal  may  reasonably 
be  expected  to  result  in  reversal  or  modification  of  judgment. 

He  shall  also  upon  request  prosecute  actions  for  collection  of 
wages  and  other  demands  of  persons  not  able  to  employ 
counsel  in  cases  involving  less  than  $100,  where  in  his  judg- 
ment claims  are  valid  and  enforceable,  and  shall  defend  such 
persons  in  all  civil  litigation  in  which,  in  his  judgment,  they 
are  being  persecuted  or  unjustly  harassed. 

Suitable  offices  shall  be  provided  for  public  defender  by 
Board  of  Supervisors,  which  shall  also  provide  sufficient  num- 
ber of  clerks  and  employees  to  properly  conduct  business  of 
office    and    fix    their    compensation. 

S.   B.   780.     Crowley.     Identical  with  A.   B.   620.     Harris. 

DENTISTS. 

S.  B.  109.  Brown.  To  insure  the  better  education  of  prac- 
titioners of  dental  surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of 
dentistry  in  the  State  of  California,  providing  penalties  for 
the  violation  hereof,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  now  in  force  relat- 
ing to  the  same  and  known  as:  'An  Act  to  insure  the  better 
education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery,  and  to  regulate 
the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California,  providing 
penalties  for  the  violation  hereof,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  now 
in  force  relating  to  the  same,  and  known  as  An  Act  to  insure 
the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery,  and 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
approved   March   12,   1885,   approved  March,   1901." 

Makes  it  unlawful  for  any  person  to  practice  dentistry  in 
California  without  a  license;  creates  a  Board  of  Dental  Ex- 
aminers of  seven  reputable  practicing  dentists,  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor;  provides  for  the  organization  of  the 
board,  the  election  of  officers,  times  and  places  of  meetings, 
compensation  of  members  at  $10  a  day  for  time  actually 
spent  in  attending  to  duties  of  office;  declares  books  and 
examination  papers  public  records  and  open  to  public  inspec- 
tion, a  certified  copy  of  all  or  part  to  be  primary  evidence  in 
every  court  in  the  State.  Secretary  custodian  of  the  books 
and    shall    furnish    copies   of   any   part    thereof    upon   applicant 

aying  25  cents  per  100  words,   fee  to  belong  to  secretary. 

Board  shall  examine  all  applicants  who  furnish  satisfactory 
evidence    of    good    moral    character,    upon    payment    of    fee    of 


192  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

$25;  prescribes  subjects  in  which  applicants  shall  be  examined, 
and  provides  that  any  applicant  passing  examination  with 
general  average  of  not  less  than  75  per  cent  shall  be  regis- 
tered as  a  licensed  dentist;  applicants  failing  to  pass  to  be 
re-examined  in  the  subjects  in  which  they  failed;  diplomas 
from  any  reputable  dental  college  recognized  by  the  National 
Association  of  Dental  Faculties,  and  certificates  of  registra- 
tion in  dentistry  from  any  other  State  shall  entitle  appli- 
cants to  license  without  examination  upon  payment  of  requi- 
site  fee. 

Lost  or  destroyed  licenses  may  be  reissued  on  payment 
of   fee   of   $5.00. 

Secretary  before  10th  of  each  month  shall  report  to  State 
Controller  all  fees,  fines,  licenses  and  other  collections  and 
pay  entire  amount  of  receipts  into  State  treasury,  where  it 
shall  be  credited  to  State  Board  of  Dental  Examiners'  con- 
tingent fund,  out  of  which  all  salaries  and  expenses  incurred 
by  the  Board  shall  be  paid.  Every  licensed  dentist  must 
register  with  County  Clerk  of  county  wherein  his  place  of 
business  is  located  within  60  days  after  Act  takes  effect;  and 
provides    for    County    Clerk    keeping    proper    record. 

It  is  declared  a  misdemeanor  to  sell  or  offer  to  sell  any 
dental  degree,  or  any  certificate  or  transcript  made  pursuant 
to  laws  regulating  license  and  registration  of  dentists;  or 
to  purchase  any  such  diploma,  certificate  or  transcript  with 
intent  to  use  it  as  evidence  of  qualification  to  practice;  or  to 
alter  with  fraudulent  intent  in  a  material  regard  any  such 
diploma,  certificate  or  transcript,  or  use  or  attempt  to  use 
any  diploma,  certificate  or  transcript  purchased,  fraudulently 
issued,  counterfeited  or  materially  altered  as  a  license  to 
practice  or  in  order  to  procure  registration;  or  practice  den- 
tistry under  a  false  or  assumed  name;  or  assume  a  dental 
degree  not  duly  conferred  on  him  or  her;  wilfully  make  a 
false  statement  in  a  material  regard  in  an  affidavit  required 
of  an  applicant  for  examination,  license  or  registration,  or  to 
practice  dentistry  without  a  license,  punishable  by  fine  of  not 
less  than  $50  or  more  than  $500,  or  by  imprisonment  not  less 
than  ten  days  or  more  than  six  months,  for  a  first  offense; 
and  for  a  subsequent  offense  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $100 
or  more  than  $1000,  or  by  imprisonment  not  less  than  30  days 
nor  more   than  one   year,   or  both. 

Every  practitioner  must  conspicuously  display  his  name,  and 
if  there  be  more  than  one  chair,  the  name  of  the  practitioner 
must  be  displayed  on  or  by  said  chair  in  plain  sight  of 
patients,    with   the   same   penalties   as   above. 

Licenses  may  be  revoked  for  conviction  of  felony  or  mis- 
demeanor   involving    moral    turpitude,    unprofessional    conduct; 


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gross  ignorance  or  inefficiency;  and  the  method  of  procedure 
for   revocation   is   provided. 

The  Board  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  Governor, 
and   four   members    shall   constitute   a   quorum. 

S.  B.  339.  Benson.  To  insure  the  better  education  of 
dental  surgeons  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in 
the  State  of  California,  providing  penalties  for  the  violation 
hereof. 

Prohibits  the  practice  of  dentistry  without  a  license;  creates 
a  board  of  dental  examiners  of  seven,  to  be  appointed  by  the 
Governor,  who  shall  have  been  legally  practicing  in  California 
for  at  least  five  years,  and  none  of  whom  shall  be  members 
of  the  faculty  of  any  dental  or  medical  college  in  this  State 
or  have  any  interest  therein,  for  a  term  of  four  years.  Pro- 
vides for  a  secretary  whose  compensation  shall  be  fixed  by  the 
board.  Meetings  shall  be  held  regularly  at  least  twice  a  year 
at  time  and  place  to  be  designated;  all  books  to  be  public 
records;  members  of  board  to  receive  $10  per  day  for  actual 
time  spent  in  attendance  at  meetings  of  board  and  of  com- 
mittees  thereof,    and   necessary   expenses. 

Any  person  over  21  years  of  age  shall  be  eligible  to  examina- 
tion upon  application,  payment  of  fee  of  $25,  furnishing  satis- 
factory testimonials  of  good  moral  character,  and  furnishing 
satisfactory  evidence  of  graduation  from  a  reputable  dental 
college  approved  by  board  of  dental  examiners,  and  after 
August  1,  1918,  shall  also  file  diploma  or  certificate  of  gradua- 
tion with  recommendations  from  high  school  accredited  to 
University  of  California  or  other  university  of  equal  standing, 
or  certificate  by  a  State  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
or  similar  officer;  or  in  lieu  thereof  a  certificate  from  the 
board  of  dental  examiners  of  any  other  State  showing  that 
he  has  been  a  duly  licensed  practitioner  of  dentistry  in  such 
State  for  at  least  five  years. 

Provides  what  examination  shall  consist  of,  including  dem- 
onstration of  applicant's  skill  in  operative  and  prosthetic 
dentistry;  those  passing  successfully  to  be  registered  as 
licensed  dentists  and  granted  a  license  to  practice;  all  receiv- 
ing 85  per  cent  or  over  in  any  subject  to  be  exempt  from  re- 
examination. 

Requires  all  licensed  dentists  to  register  with  county  clerk 
in  county  where  they  practice,  for  which  a  fee  of  $1  must  be 
paid. 

Provides  for  an  annual  license  tax  of  $2,  failure  to  pay 
which  shall  work   forfeiture  of  license. 

Declares  who  shall  be   understood  to  be  practicing  dentistry. 

Sale,  purchase  or  alteration  of  a  diploma  or  certificate,  or 
use  thereof  with  fraudulent  intent,  or  refusal  to  furnish  name 
and   address   of  any   person   practicing  or  assisting  in  practice 


194  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

of  dentistry  without  a  license,  or  assuming  degree  or  append- 
ing letters  indicating  degree  not  duly  .  conferred  by  some 
recognized  dental  college  or  school,  or  making  a  false  statement 
in  affidavit  accompanying  application,  or  practicing  dentistry 
without  conspicuously  displaying  the  names  of  every  person 
employed,  or  who  shall  practice  dentistry  without  a  license, 
or  while  license  is  suspended  or  has  been  revoked,  or  who 
under  name  other  than  that  under  which  he  is  licensed,  prac- 
tice, advertise  or  otherwise  declares  that  he  is  practicing  den- 
tistry, is  declared  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  imprisonment 
not  less  than  10  days  or  more  than  one  year,  or  by  fine  of  not 
less    than    $100    or    more    than    $1500,    or    both. 

License  may  be  revoked  for  conviction  of  felony  involving 
moral  turpitude,  rendition  of  final  judgment  upon  cause  of 
action  alleging  grossly  unskillful  or  negligent  dental  practice, 
or  unprofessional  conduct  or  gross  ignorance  or  inefficiency 
in   his   profession,   and   provides   procedure   for  such   revocation. 

A.  B.  1010.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  339.     Benson. 

A.  B.  1119.  Sharkey  (by  request).  To  provide  for  the  estab- 
lishment and  maintenance  of  a  Bureau  of  Dental  Sanitation 
under  the  direction  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  defining  the 
powers  and  duties  of  said  bureau;  and  prescribing  penalties 
for  violations  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

A.  B.  190.  Gelder.  Prohibiting  the  use  of  arsenic,  any  alka- 
loid, cocaine  or  its  salts,  alpha  or  beta  eucaine  or  their  salts, 
in  the  practice  of  dentistry;  providing  a  penalty  therefor;  re- 
pealing  all   Acts   or    parts    of   Acts    in    conflict    herewith. 

A.  B.  762.  Chenoweth.  Declaring  unlawful  the  employment 
of  any  person  as  an  operator  in  dental  work  Who  is  not  a 
duly  licensed  practitioner  in  dentistry,  and  making  violation  a 
misdemeanor. 

S.  B.  482.  Crowley.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved April  16,  1906,  to  create  the  office  of  State  dental 
surgeon,  prescribing  his  duties,  fixing  his  manner  of  appoint- 
ment, salary  and  term  of  office,  and  to  make  an  appropriation 
for  the   expenses   of   his   office. 

A.    B.    611.      Prendergast.      Identical   with   S.    B,    482,    Crowley. 

A.  B.  209.  Gelder.  Amending  Sections  1,  6  and  14  of  an 
Act  approved  March  12,  1885,  approved  March  23,  1901,  ap- 
proved March  20,  1903,  approved  March  20,  1905,  approved 
March  2,  1907,  approved  April  6,  1909,  approved  June  11,  1913, 
to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery 
and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, providing  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof,  and  to 
repeal  an  Act  now  in  force  relating  to  the  same,  and  known 
as  "An  Act  to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of 
dental  surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the 
State  of  California;   said  amendments  relating  to  the  registra- 


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tion,  practice,  and  examination  of  applicants  to  practice  den- 
tistry, and  also  relating  to  the  books  and  public  records  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Examiners,  and  also  relating  to  the  fees 
relating    to    such    examination    and    practice. 

A.  B.  195.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  12,  1885;  approved  March  23,  1901;  approved 
March  20,  1905;  approved  March  2,  1907;  approved  April  6, 
1909;  approved  June  11,  1913;  to  insure  the  better  education 
of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice 
of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California,  providing  penalties 
for  the  violation  hereof,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  now  in  force 
relating  to  the  same,  and  known  as  an  Act  to  insure  the 
better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and  to 
regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California; 
said   amendment    relating    to    the    Board   of   Dental   Examiners. 

A.  B.  194.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  8  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  12,  1885;  approved  March  23,  1901;  approved 
March  20,  1903;  approved  March  20,  1905;  approved  March 
2,  1907;  approved  April  6,  1909;  approved  June  11,  1913;  to 
insure  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
providing  penalties  for  the  violation  hereof,  and  to  repeal  an 
Act  now  in  force  relating  to  the  same,  and  known  as  an 
Act  to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental 
surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State 
of  California;  said  amendment  relating  to  persons  entitled  to 
an  examination  for  the  practice  of  dentistry. 

A.  B.  1324.  Kennedy.  Amending  Section  8  of  an  Act  to 
insure  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
relating  to  persons  entitled  to  an  examination  for  the  prac- 
tice  of  dentistry. 

A.  B.  192.  Gelder.  Adding  Section  8%  (new)  to  an  Act, 
approved  March  12,  1885;  approved  March  23,  1901;  approved 
March  20,  1903;  approved  March  20,  1905;  approved  March  2, 
1907;  approved  April  6,  1909;  approved  June  11,  1913;  to  insure 
the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
providing  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof,  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  now  in  force  relating  to  the  same  and  known  as 
an  Act  to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of 
dental  surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in 
the  State  of  California,  relating  to  persons  entitled  to  prac- 
tice   dentistry    in    this    State. 

Provides  that  any  person  holding  diploma  from  school  or 
college  of  dentistry  recognized  as  reputable  and  in  good  stand- 
ing by  National  Association  of  Dental  Faculties,  in  full  force 
and  effect  for  five  years  prior  to  application  to  practice  den- 
tistry in   this   State,   shall   be  entitled   to   register  without   ex- 


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aminatidn  to  practice  dentistry  in  this  State,  and  board  must 
issue  him  a  license  therefor;  applicant  must  present  certificate 
signed  by  two  citizens  that  he  is  of  good  moral  character, 
that  he  is  not  under  any  charges  involving  moral  turpitude, 
and   has   not  had  his  license   revoked. 

A.  B.  193.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  10  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  12,  1885;  approved  March  23,  1901;  approved 
March  20,  1903,  approved  March  20,  1905;  approved  March  2, 
1907;  approved  April  6,  1909;  approved  June  11,  1913;  to  insure 
the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and  to 
regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
providing  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental 
surgery  and" to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State 
of  California;  said  amendments  relating  to  the  register  of 
license    of    persons    entitled    to    practice    dentistry. 

A.  B.  1325.  Kennedy.  Amending  Section  12  of  an  Act  to 
insure  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
etc.,  relating  to  persons  entitled  to  an  examination  for  the 
practice   of   dentistry. 

A.  B.  191.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  19  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  12,  1885;  approved  March  23,  1901;  approved 
March  20,  1903;  approved  March  20,  1905;  approved  March  2, 
1907;  approved  April  6,  1909;  approved  June  11,  1913;  to  insure 
the  better  education  of  practitioners  of  dental  surgery  and  to 
regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  the  State  of  California, 
providing  penalties  for  the  violation  hereof,  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  now  in  force  relating  to  the  same,  and  known  as 
an  Act  to  insure  the  better  education  of  practitioners  of 
dental  surgery  and  to  regulate  the  practice  of  dentistry  in 
the  State  of  California;  said  amendment  relating  to  the  prac- 
tice of  dentistry  and  providing-  a  penalty  thereforr  and  adding 
Subdivision  11  (new)  thereto,  forbidding  the  performance  of 
dental  operations  upon  females  without  the  presence  at  all 
times   of   a   competent   female   assistant   or   nurse. 

DETECTIVES. 

S.  B.  20.  Purkitt.  To  license  and  regulate  the  business  of 
private  detectives  and  detective   agencies. 

Requires  every  person,  firm,  association,  copartnership  or 
corporation  engaging  in  the  business  of  private  detective  for 
hire  or  reward  to  procure  a  license  from  the  Secretary  of 
State,  and  must  give  bond  in  $2000;  a  license  fee  for  indi- 
viduals is  to  be  $100,  and  for  copartnerships  $150,  and  co- 
partnership bond  is  fixed  at  $3000;  violation  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor. 

S.  B.  437.     Finn.     To  regulate  private  detective  agencies  and 


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detectives;  prescribing  certain  qualifications  of  all  persons 
operating  as  private  detectives;  providing  for  the  licensing 
and  bonding  of  such  agencies  and  detectives,  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  Secretary  of  State,  and  defining  their  liabilities 
for  misconduct  to  persons  injured  thereby. 

Requires  every  person,  firm,  association  or  corporation  con-  . 
ducting  a  secret  service  agency  to  secure  annually  a  license 
from  the  Secretary  of  State,  for  which  they  shall  pay  $1000; 
individuals  employed  as  secret  service  operatives  or  detectives 
or  operating  independently  as  such  shall  pay  a  license  fee  of- 
$100  annually;  failure  to  pay  tax  forfeits  right  to  engage  in 
such  business;  operating  without  a  license  is  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  in  the  case  of  an  agency,  by  fine  of 
$3000,  and  of  an  individual  of  $300.  Every  agency  shall  give  a 
surety  bond  of  $25,000  and  each  independent  operative  a  bond 
of  $3000,  to  indemnify  the  public  for  any  misconduct. 

A.   B.   541.     Kennedy.     Identical  with  S.   B.   437.     Finn. 

A.  B.  1478.  Avey.  To  license  and  regulate  the  busine&s  of 
private  detectives  and  private  detective  agencies. 

Vests  jurisdiction  over  private  detectives  and  private  de- 
tective agencies  in  the  State  Board  of  Prison  Directors. 

EDUCATIONAL. 

S.  B.  236.  Strobridge.  Providing  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  vocational  courses  and  schools  by  local  boards 
of  education  for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  agricultural,  in- 
dustrial, trade,  commercial  and  all  other  practical  subjects, 
and   providing   State  aid   therefor. 

S.  B.  237.  Strobridge.  Providing  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  classes  for  the  training  of  vocational  teachers 
and  providing  State  aid  therefor. 

S.  B.  1191.  Butler.  To  provide  for  the  establishment  of  a 
system  of  vocational  education,  for  the  qualification  of  in- 
structors in  vocations,  and  for  the  supervision  of  each  in- 
structor and  for  State  aid  therefor.  .   . 

A.  B.  940.  Fish.  Creating  a  bureau  of  visual  instruction 
under  the  University  Extension  Division  of  the  University  of 
California  and  appropriating  $25,000  for  the  purpose  of  carry- 
ing out  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

S.  B.  935.     Carr.     Identical    with   A.    B.    940.      Fish. 

S.  B.  760.  Breed.  To  establish  a  State  training  high  school, 
to  prescribe  the  functions  thereof,  to  provide  for  its  organiza- 
tion and  management,  to  authorize  the  high  school  district 
where  the  same  is  located  to  appropriate  moneys  for  the 
partial  payment  of  its  expenses  and  to  provide  for  its  housing, 
and  appropriating  $75,000  therefor. 

A.   B.   299.     Scott,   F.   C.     Establishing   the  Allensworth  :  Poly- 


IDS  PEiN PING.  LEGISLATION,  1915. 

technic  Institute  in  the  county  of  Tulare,  and  appropriating 
$50,000   therefor. 

S.  B.  411.     Irwin.     Identical  with  A.   B.   299,    Scott. 

A.  B.  716.  Rigdon.  Establishing  one  State  scholarship  for 
the  benefit  of  each  county  at  the  State  Polytechnic  School,  and 
appropriating   $8000   annually   for   their   maintenance. 

A.  B.  1435.  Cary.  To  regulate  the  issuance  of  charters  to 
persons  intending  to  found  an  institution  for  the  teaching  of 
the  healing  art  or  any  of  its  branches  in  the  States  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

ELECTRICITY. 

S.  B.  201.  Ballard.  Regulating  the  placing,  erection,  use 
and  maintenance  of  electric  poles,  wires,  cables  and  appliances, 
and  providing  the  punishment  for  the  violation  thereof,  and 
the  repeal  of  certain  other  Acts. 

A.  B.   267.     Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.   B.   201.     Ballard. 

S.  B.  677.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act,  approved  April 
22,  1911,  regulating  the  placing,  erection,  use  and  maintenance 
of  electric  poles,  wires,  cables  and  appliances,  and  providing 
the  punishment  for  the  violation  thereof. 

ELECTIONS. 

(See  Political  Code;  Voters  and  Voting.) 
A.  B.  237.  Marron.  Providing  changes  in  the  method  of 
vote  canvassing  at  general  and  municipal  elections,  and  adding 
election  booth  equipment,  by  amending  Sections  1142,  1203,  1252, 
1255  and  1257,  Political  Code,  relating  to  the  same  subject, 
and  providing  for  the  addition  of  a  new  section  to  the  Political 
Code,  to  be  numbered  1257a,  also  relating  to  the  same  subject; 
repealing  Section  1253  of  the  same  code,  relating  to  the  manner 
of  commencing  a  vote  canvass,  and  repealing  all  sections  or 
parts   of   sections   in   conflict   herewith. 

A.  B.  285.  Cary.  Providing  changes  in  the  method  of  vote 
canvassing  at  general  and  municipal  elections,  and  adding 
election  booth  equipment,  by  amending  Sections  1072,  relating 
to  compensation  of  election  officers;  1127,  relating  to  election 
precincts;  1142,  1203,  1252,  1253,  1255  and  1257  of  the  Political 
Code,  relating  to  the  same  subject,  and  adding  Section  1257a 
(new)  to  the  Political  Code,  also  relating  to  the  same  subject; 
repealing  Section  1129  of  the  same  code,  relating  to  election 
precincts;  and  repealing  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict 
herewith. 

S.  B.  494.  Birdsall.  To  provide  for  the  issuance  of  identi- 
fication certificates  and  official  ballots  to  duly  registered 
voters,  to  enable  voters  to  whom  such  certificates  and  ballots 
have  been  issued  to  cast  their  votes  wherever  they  may  be 
within   the   State   of  California,    on   the   day   of  any   general   or 


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primary  election,  and  to  provide  the  manner  in  which  such 
votes    shall   be   cast   and   counted. 

A.   B.   567.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.   B.   494.     Birdsall. 

A.  B.  715.  Young.  To  provide  for  and  regulate  primary 
elections  and  providing  for  the  election  of  party  committees, 
and  to  repeal  the  Act  providing  for  the  regulating  primary 
elections  known  as  the  Direct  Primary  Law  and  approved 
June  16,  1913,  and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  or  parts  of 
Acts  inconsistent  with  or  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of 
this   Act. 

Speaker    Young    thus    explains    this    measure: 

The  form  of  the  Direct  Primary  Bill  is  almost  entirely 
changed.  It  attempts  a  more  orderly  presentation  of  the 
various  questions  involved  and  is  an  entire  recasting  of  the 
old   law. 

Registration  of  party  affiliation  prior  to  the  primary  gives 
way  to  declaration  of  party  affiliation  at  the  primary  election. 

Instead  of  six  ballots  as  at  the  last  primary  election,  one 
for  each  of  the  five  parties  and  one  non-partisan  ballot  there 
is   only   one   ballot   provided    for   in   the   present   law. 

Candidates  for  congressional  offices  are  placed  on  this  bal- 
lot in  their  various  party  headings  and  the  election  officer  is 
instructed  to  cancel  all  lists  of  party  candidates  in  the  ballot 
given  to  each  voter,  except  those  of  the  party  with  which  he 
declares   himself  affiliated. 

The  party  convention  is  no  longer  made  up  of  party  nomi- 
nees for  office  since  these  are  now  confined  to  congressional 
offices,  but  are  composed  of  one  party  committeeman  elected 
from  each  Assembly  District  or  appointed  by  the  congression- 
al officers  in  case  any  Assembly  District  fails  to  elect  such 
committeeman.  Congressional  officers  are  made  ex-offlcio 
members  of  such  convention  and  the  platform  to  be  promul- 
gated is  confined  to  national  issues  such  as  will  be  dealt  with 
by  congressional  candidates  in  their  campaign  and  in  the 
presidential   campaign. 

S.  B.  495.  Ballard.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  6,  1913,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  primary 
elections,  and  providing  a  method  for  choosing  the  delegates 
for  political  parties  to  state  conventions  and  for  nominating 
electors  of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States, 
and  providing  for  the  election  of  party  county  central  com- 
mittees, and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  April  7,  1911,  known 
as  the  Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also  to  repeal  the  Act  ap- 
proved December  24,  1911,  amending  Sections  1,  3,  5,  7,  10, 
12,  13,  22,  23  and  24  of  the  said  Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also 
to  repeal  all  other  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  or 
in    conflict   with    the   provisions    of   this   Act. 

A.    B.    520.      Bartlett.      Amending    Section    5    of    an    Act,    ap- 


200  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

proved  June  6,  1913,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  primary  elec- 
tions, and  providing-  a  method  for  choosing  the  delegates  for 
political  parties  to  State  conventions  and  for  nominating  elec- 
tors of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States, 
and  providing  for  the  election  of  party  county  central  com- 
mittees, and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  April  7,  1911,  known 
as  the  Direct  Primary  Daw,  and  also  to  repeal  the  Act  ap- 
proved December  24,  1911,  amending  Sections  1,  3,  5,  7,  10,  12, 
13,  22,  23  and  24  of  the  said  Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also 
to  repeal  all  other  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  or 
in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  784.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Act,  approved  June 
16,  1913,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  primary  elections,  and 
providing  a  method  for  choosing  the  delegates  for  political 
parties  to  State  conventions  and  for  nominating  electors  of 
President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  election  of  party  county  central  committees, 
and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  April  7,  1911,  known  as  the 
Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also  to  repeal  the  Act  approved 
December  24,  1911,  amending  Sections  1,  3,  5,  7,  10,  12,  13,  22, 
23  and  24  of  the  said  Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also  to  repeal 
all  other  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  or  in  conflict 
with   the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  1180.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  29  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  primary 
elections,  and  providing  a  method  for  choosing  the  delegates 
for  political  parties  to  State  conventions,  and  for  nominating 
electors  of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States 
and  providing  for  the  election  of  party  county  central  com- 
mittees, and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  April  7,  1911,  known, 
as  the  Direct  Primary  Law,  and  also  to  repeal  the  Act  ap- 
proved  December  24,   1911,    etc. 

A.  B.  1223.  Fish.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act,  approved 
June  11,  1913,  to  permit  the  consolidation  of  elections  and  to 
provide   a  procedure  therefor. 

S.  B.  1173.  Butler.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  approved 
June  11,  1913,  to  permit  the  consolidation  of  elections  and  to 
provide  a  procedure   therefor,   relating  to   election  precincts. 

S.  B.  1135.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  19,  1907,  to  regulate  the  conduct  of  election 
campaigns,  and  repealing  an  Act  approved  February  23,  1893, 
to  promote  the  purity  of  elections  by  regulating  the  conduct 
thereof,  and  to  support  the  privilege  of  free  suffrage  by  pro- 
hibiting certain  acts  and  practices  in  relation  thereto,  and 
providing  for  the  punishment  thereof,  relating  to  campaign 
contributions. 

A.  B.  1811.  Sisson.  Amending  Sections  3  and  9  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved   March    19,    1907,    to    regulate    the    conduct    of    election 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  201 

campaign,  and  repealing-  an  Act  approved  February  23,  1893, 
to  promote  the  purity  of  elections  by  regulating  the  conduct 
thereof,  and  to  support  the  privilege  of  free  suffrage  by  pro- 
hibiting certain  acts  and  practices  in  relation  thereto,  and 
providing  for  the  punishment  thereof. 

ELEVATORS. 

A.  B.  201.  Kennedy.  Regulating  the  construction,  operation 
and  maintenance  of  elevators  in  all  buildings,  and  to  repeal 
an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  regulate  the  construction,  opera- 
tion, and  maintenance  of  elevators  in  buildings  during  course 
of  construction;  providing  for  inspection  of  the  same  by  the 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics;  and  providing  a  penalty  for  vio- 
lation   thereof",    approved    June    7,    1913. 

A.  B.  233.  Schmitt.  To  promote  the  safety  of  passengers 
in   elevators. 

Requires  persons,  firms  or  corporations  operating  and  main- 
taining elevators  for  passenger  service  to  conspicuously  display 
therein  a  sign  setting  forth  the  number  of  passengers  that  can 
safely  be  carried  on  one  trip,  violation  a  misdemeanor,  which 
extends  also  to  any  person  operating  such  elevator  permitting 
more  than  the  maximum  number  of  persons  indicated  on  the 
notice  to  ride  at  any  one  time  on  said   elevator. 

A.  B.  346.  Schmitt.  Prohibiting  the  use  of  mirrors  and  other 
glass  in  elevators,  and  declaring  violation  a  misdemeanor. 

EMBALMERS. 

S.  B.  34  2.  Crowley.  Establishing  a  state  board  of  embalm- 
ers,  defining  the  duties  thereof,  providing  for  the  better  pro- 
tection of  life  and  health,  preventing  the  spread  of  contagious 
disease,  regulating  the  practice  of  embalming  in  connection 
with  the  care  and  disposition  of  the  dead  and  providing 
penalties   for  the   violation   thereof. 

Provides  for  a  State  board  of  embalmers  appointed  by  the 
Governor  consisting  of  five  members,  four  of  whom  shall  be 
practical  embalmers  and  one  of  whom  shall  be  a  member  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health,  to  serve  without  pay.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  said  board  to  examine  applicants  for  license  as 
embalmers,  to  issue  and  revoke  such  licenses  to  applicants 
meeting  the  requirements  specified.  It  shall  be  deemed  a  mis- 
demeanor for  any  person  to  embalm  a  dead  body  without  such 
license.  (A.  B.  1228.  Smith.  Pending  Legislation,  1913,  p. 
321.) 

A.  B.  403.  Godsil.  To  establish  a  State  board  of  embalmers, 
defining  the  duties  thereof,  providing  for  the  better  protection 
of  life  and  health,  preventing  the  spread  of  contagious  dfsease, 
regulating   the- practice   of   embalming  in    connection  "with"  the 


202  PENDING    LEGISLATION*,   1915. 

care  and  disposition  of  the  dead  and  providing  penalties  for  the 
violation  thereof. 

EMPLOYMENT  BUREAU,  STATE. 

A.  B.  19.  Spengler.  Creating  for  the  State  of  California  a 
free  employment  bureau  in  connection  with  the  State  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics,  under  the  management  of  a  director  at 
$2000  per  year,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Commissioner  of  the 
S'tate  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics;  public  employment  offices 
to  be  established  at  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Oakland  and. 
Sacramento,  and  such  other  places  as  may  be  necessary;  pro- 
viding for  the  appointment,  terms  of  office,  compensation  and 
duties  of  officers  and  employees  of  said  employment  bureau; 
making  certain  rules  and  regulations  in  relation  to  same; 
making  it  a  misdemeanor  for  private  employment  agencies  to 
charge  fees  in  any  city  where  a  free  employment  bureau  has 
been  established  hereunder,  and  appropriating  $250,000  for  the 
purposes  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  251.  Ferguson.  Establishing  in  the  cities  of  San 
Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Sacramento,  Stockton,  Oakland,  Fres- 
no, Bakersfield  and  San  Diego  employment  offices  under  the 
control  and  management  of  the  commissioner  of  the  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics;  defining  the  duties  and  powers  of  said 
commissioner  in  relation  to  such  offices  and  the  manner  of 
conducting  same;  providing  for  suitable  rooms  or  offices,  to  be 
located  in  different  cities  and  providing  for  the  equipment  and 
maintenance  thereof.  Providing  for  necessary  employees'  fees 
and  compensation  and  defining  their  powers  and  duties.  Pre- 
scribing the  fees  to  be  paid  by  persons  furnished  positions  and 
appropriating  $35,000  to  carry  out  the  purpose  of  this  Act. 

S.  B.  325.  Lyon.  Establishing  free  employment  bureaus 
under  the  control  and  management  of  the  Commissioner  of 
the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  and  appropriating  $50,000 
therefor. 

A.   B.    333.     McDonald.     Identical  with   A.    B.    333,    McDonald. 

S.  B.  349.  Kehoe.  Relating  to  labor  exchanges  and  employ- 
ment agencies,  creating  a  bureau  of  labor  exchanges  under 
the  Commission  of  Immigration  and  Housing  of  California, 
providing  for  the  employment  by  said  commission  of  a  director, 
superintendents  and  other  employees,  authorizing  said  com- 
mission to  fix  their  compensation,  prescribing  the  duties  of 
said  bureau,  providing  for  the  free  service  of  said  bureau  in 
securing  employment  for  applicants,  prescribing  certain  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  conduct  of  private  employment 
agencies,  authorizing  the  said  bureau  to  license  private  em-* 
ployment  agencies  and  enforce  all  laws  pertaining  to  the  regu- 
lation of  private  employment  agencies,  and  making  an  appro- 
priation for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  hereof. 


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A.  B.  356.  Harris.  Relating-  to  labor  exchanges  and  employ- 
ment agencies,  creating  a  bureau  of  labor  exchanges  under 
the  Commission  of  Immigration  and  Housing  of  California, 
and  the  establishment  of  State  labor  exchanges  at  such  centers 
of  population  as  may  after  investigation  be  selected;  pro- 
viding for  the  employment  of  said  commission  of  a  director, 
superintendents  and  other  employees,  authorizing  said  com- 
mission to  fix  their  compensation,  prescribing  the  duties  of 
said  bureau,  providing  for  the  free  service  of  said  bureau  in 
securing  employment  for  applicants,  prescribing  certain  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  conduct  of  private  employment 
agencies,  authorizing  the  said  bureau  to  license  private  em- 
ployment agencies  and  enforce  all  laws  pertaining  to  the  regu- 
lation of  private  employment  agencies,  and  appropriating  $150,- 
000  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  hereof. 

S.  B.  1068.  Duncan.  Providing  that  all  justices  of  the  peace 
in  townships  having  a  population  of  less  than  15,000  shall  act 
as  labor  and   employment  agents. 

EMPLOYMENT     AGENCIES. 

A.  B.  515.  Edwards.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  3, 
1913,  regulating  private  employment  agencies,  providing  for 
.a  license  for  the  operation  thereof  and  a  fee  therefor,  pro- 
viding forms  or  receipts  and  registers  to  be  used  and  kept, 
prohibiting  any  charge  for  registering  or  filing  application  for 
help  or  employment,  prohibiting  the  dividing  of  fees,  providing 
for  the  refunding  of  fees  and  expenses  in  the  event  of  failure 
to  procure  employment,  and  granting  the  Commissioner  of  the 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  the  power  to  prescribe  rules  and 
regulations  to  carry  out  the  purpose  and  intent  of  this  Act, 
by  adding  two  new  sections  thereto,  to  be  numbered  12a  and 
12b,  relating  to  the  making  of  application  to  any  private 
employment  agency  for  help. 

Provides  (Sec.  12a)  that  no  person  shall  apply  to  an  em- 
ployment agency  for  help  unless  he  has  a  position  to  be  filled; 
and  (Sec.  12b)  renders  such  person  so  appplying  and  having 
no  place  to  be  filled,  or  having  such  position  refusing,  without 
valid  reason,  to  employ  the  person  furnished  by  the  employ- 
ment agency,  liable  in  an  action  at  law  for  any  and  all  losses 
sustained  by  the  agency. 

A.  B.  516.  Edwards.  Amending  Section  12  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  3,  1913,  regulating  private  employment  agencies, 
providing  for  a  license  for  the  operation  thereof  and  a  fee 
therefor^  providing  forms  of  receipts  and  registers  to  be  used 
and  kept,  prohibiting  any  charge  for  registering  or  filing  ap- 
plication for  help  or  employment,  prohibiting  the  dividing  of 
fees,  providing  for  the  refunding  of  fees  and  expeness  in  the 
event    of    failure    to    procure    employment,     and    granting    the 


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Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  the  power 
to  prescribe  rules  and  regulations  to  carry  out  the  purposes 
and   intent   of   this   Act. 

Provides  for  the  return  of  the  difference  between  five  per 
cent  of  the  amount  earned  by  the  applicant  and  the  fee  paid, 
in  case  he  worked  less  than  seven  days  by  reason  of  discharge. 

S.  B.  983.  Lyon.  Amending  Sections  4,  7,  12  and  14  of  an 
Act,  approved  June  3,  1913,  regulating  private  employment 
agencies,  providing  for  a  license  for  the  operation  thereof  and 
a  fee  therefor,  providing  forms  of  receipts  and  registers  to  be 
•  used  and  kept,  prohibiting  any  charge  for  registering  or  filing 
application  for  help  or  employment,  prohibiting  the  dividing 
of  fees,  providing  for  the  refunding  of  fees  and  expenses  in 
the  event  of  failure  to  procure  employment,  and  granting  the 
Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  the  power  to 
prescribe  rules  and  regulations  to  carry  out  the  purpose  and 
intent  of  this  Act. 

S;- B.  986.  Lyon.  Adding-  Section  12a  (new)  to  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  3,  1913,  regulating  private  employment  agencies, 
providing  for  a  license  for  the  operation  thereof  and  a  fee 
therefor,  providing  forms  of  receipts  and  registers  to  be  used 
and  kept,  prohibiting  any  charge  for  registering  or  filing  ap- 
plication for  help  or  employment,  prohibiting  the  dividing  of 
fees,  providing  for  the  refunding  of  fees  and  expenses  in  the 
event  of  failure  to  procure  employment,  and  granting  the  Com- 
missioner of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  the  power  to  pre- 
scribe rules  and  regulations  to  carry  out  the  purpose  and  intent 
of  this  Act. 

ENGINEERING,   DEPARTMENT    OF. 

"S.  B,  90.  Finn.  Amending  Sections  5  and  12  of  an  Act 
entitled  "An  Act  to  create  for  the  State  of  California  a  de- 
partment of  engineering,  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of 
the  officers  and  employees  thereof,  defining  its  powers  and 
prescribing  the  duties  of  said  department,  its  officers  and 
employees;  to  provide  the  compensation  of  such  officers  and 
employees,  to  make  an  appropriation  for  the  salaries  and 
other  expenses  for  the  remainder  of  the  fifty-eighth  fiscal 
year  and  making  certain  acts  a  felony,  and  repealing  an  Act 
entitled  'An  Act  creating  a  commissioner  of  public  works, 
defining  his  duties  and  powers,  and  fixing  his  compensation,' 
approved  February  9,  1900,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts 
amendatory  thereof;  also  repealing  an  Act  entitled  'An  Act 
:tp:  create.-  a  department  of  highways  for  the  State  of  Califor- 
nia, to  define  its  duties  and  powers,  to  provide  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  officers  and  employees  thereof,  and  to  provide  for  the 
compensation  of  said  officers  and  employes,  and  for  the 
additional  expenses-  of  .said  department,   and   to   make  an  ap- 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  205 

propriation  therefor  for  the  remainder  of  the  forty- eighth 
fiscal  year,'  approved  April  1,  1897;  also  repealing  an  Act 
entitled  'An  Act  providing  for  the  appointment  of  an  auditing 
board  to  the  Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  authorizing  him 
and  them  to  perform  certain  duties  relating  to  drainage,  to 
purchase  machinery,  tools,  dredgers  and  appliances  therefor, 
to  improve  and  rectify  water  channels,  to  erect  works  neces- 
sary and  incident  to  said  drainage,  to  condemn  land  and  prop- 
erty for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  making  certain  acts  a  felony, 
and  making  an  appropriation  of  money  for  the  purposes  of 
this  Act.'  approved  March  17,  1897,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of 
Acts  amendatory  thereof;  also  repealing  an  Act  entitled  'An 
Act  to  provide  for  the  appointment,  duties  and  compensation 
of  a  debris  commissioner,  and  to  make  an  appropriation  to 
be  expended  under  his  direction  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
as  such  commissioner,'  approved  March  24,  1893,  and  all  Acts 
or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof;  also  repealing  an  Act 
entitled  'An  Act  to  create  the  office  of  Lake  Tahoe  Wagon 
Road  Commissioner,  providing  the  term  of  office  and  compen- 
sation of  such  commissioner,  defining  his  duties,  and  making 
an  appropriation  for  the  salary  and  expenditures  provided  for 
and  authorized  by  this  Act,'  approved  April  1,  1897,  and  all 
Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof,"  approved  March 
11,  1907,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof 
relating  to  the  officers  and  employes  of  the  department  of 
engineering,  their  powers,  duties  and  salaries  and  particu- 
larly to  the  engineer  appointed  for  service  in  the  harbor  of 
San  Francisco  under  the  State  Board  of  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners. 

S.  B.  21.  Scott.  Amending  Sections  6a  and  17  of  an  Act  to 
amend  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  create  for  the  State  of 
California  a  department  of  engineering,  to  provide  for  the 
appointment  of  the  officers  and  employees  thereof,  defining 
its  powers  and  prescribing  the  duties  of  said  department,  its 
officers  and  employees,  to  provide  the  compensation  of  such 
officers  and  employees,  to  make  an  appropriation  for  the 
salaries  and  other  expenses  for  the  remainder  of  the  fifty- 
eighth  fiscal  year  making  certain  acts  a  felony,  and  repealing 
an  Act  entitled  'An  Act  creating  a  commissioner  of  public 
works,  defining  his  duties  and  powers,  and  fixing  his  compen- 
sation,' approved  February  ninth,  nineteen  hundred,  and  all 
Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof;  also  repealing  an 
Act  entitled  'An  Act  to  create  a  department  of  highways'  for 
the  State  of  California,  to  define  its  duties  and  powers,  to 
provide  for  the  appointment  of  officers  and  employees  thereof, 
and  to  provide  for  the  compensation  of  said  officers  and  em- 
ployees,   and   for   the   additional   expenses   of   said   department, 


206  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

and  to  make  an  appropriation  therefor  for  the  remainder  of 
the  forty- eighth  fiscal  year,'  approved  April  first,  eighteen 
hundred  ninety-seven;  also  repealing  an  Act  entitled  'An  Act 
providing  for  the  appointment  of  an  auditing  board  to  the 
commissioner  of  public  works,  authorizing  him  and  them  to 
perform  certain  duties  relating  to  drainage,  to  purchase  ma- 
chinery, tools,  dredges,  and  appliances  therefor,  to  improve 
and  rectify  water  channels,  to  erect  works  necessary  and 
incident  to  said  drainage,  to  condemn  land  and  property  for 
the  purposes  aforesaid,  making  certain  acts  a  felony,  and 
making  an  appropriation  of  money  for  the  purposes  of  this 
Act,'  approved  March  seventeenth,  eighteen  hundred  ninety- 
seven  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof;  also 
repealing  an  Act  entitled  'An  Act  to  provide  for  the  appoint- 
ment, duties  and  compensation  of  a  debris  commissioner,  and 
to  make  an  appropriation  to  be  expended  under  his  direction 
in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  such  commissioner,'  approved 
March  twenty-fourth,  eighteen  hundred  ninety-three,  and  all 
Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof;  also  repealing  an 
Act  entitled  'An  Act  to  create  the  office  of  Lake  Tahoe 
wagon  road  commissioner,  providing  the  term  of  office  and 
compensation  of  such  commissioner,  defining  his  duties,  and 
making  an  appropriation  for  the  salary  and  expenditures 
provided  for  and  authorized  by  this  Act,'  approved  April 
first,  eighteen  hundred  ninety-seven,  and  all  Acts  or  parts 
of  Acts  amendatory  thereof,"  approved  March  eleventh,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  seven,  a#d  aft  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amend- 
atory thereof,  relating  to  the  officers  and  employees  of  the 
department  of   engineering,    their  powers,    duties  and   salaries. 

A.  B.  1152.  Gebhart.  Amending  Sections  6,  8,  11  and  17, 
to  create  for  the  State  of  California  a  Department  of  Engi- 
neering, to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  the  officers  and 
employees  thereof,  defining  its  powers  and  prescribing  the 
duties  of  said  department. 

A.   B.   24.     Ryan.     Identical  with   S.   B.   21.     Scott. 

A.   B.   241.     Scott.     Identical  with   S.   B.   21.     Scott. 

A.  B.  £71.  Shartel.  To  create  the  office  of  County  Engineer 
in  and  for  each  county,  providing  for  the  term  of  office,  quali- 
fication, appointment,  and  compensation  of  such  officer,  de- 
fining his  duties,  and  authorizing  the  Board  of  Supervisors  to 
provide  said  County  Engineer  with  office  and  necessary  office 
and  field  fixtures. 

S.  B.  42.  Birdsall.  To  provide  that  the  Department  of 
Engineering  of  the  State  of  California  may  acquire  for  and 
in  the  name  of  the  people  of  the  State  of  California,  by  pur- 
chase, donation,  dedication  or  by  proceedings  in  eminent  do- 
main, additional  rights  of  way,  land  and  trees  on  and  along 
the  course  of  any  State  highway. 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,   1915.  207 

A.   B.   12.     Kerr.     Identical  with  S.   B.   42.     Birdsall. 

A.  B.  279.  Scott,  F.  C.  Authorizing  the  establishment  of  a 
cash  revolving  fund  for  the  department  of  engineering,  and 
defining  its  use. 

S.    B.    330.      Birdsall.      Identical   with   A.    B.    279.      Scott. 

ESTRAYS. 

S.  B.  180.  Shearer.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  March  23, 
1901,  relating  to  estrays,  providing  for  taking  them  up  and 
giving  a  lien  on  them  for  all  damages,  costs,  and  expenses 
incurred  by  reason  of  taking  them  up,  and  repealing  all  other 
Acts  and   parts  of  Acts  now  in  force   relating   to   estrays. 

A.  B.  169.  McCray  and  Ream.  Identical  with  S\  B.  180. 
Shearer. 

FIREARMS. 

S.  B.  9.  Finn.  Relating  to  the  sale  and  carrying  of  danger^ 
ous  weapons.  Prohibits  the  carrying  in  any  city,  village  or 
town  any  loaded  pistol,  revolver  or  other  firearm  concealed  on 
his  person  or  of  a  size  to  be  concealed  without  a  license  issued 
by  a  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace;  makes  it  a  mis- 
demeanor to  carry,  own,  manufacture  or  sell  any  instrument 
or  weapon  such  as  a  blackjack,  slungshot,  billy,  sandclub, 
sandbag  or  metal  knuckles  or  to  carry  or  own  a  dirk,  dagger 
or  knife  with  a  blade  longer  than  three  and  one-half  inches. 
Every  person,  whether  retail  dealer,  pawnbroker  or  otherwise, 
selling,  leasing  or  otherwise  transferring  a  pistol,  revolver  or 
other  firearm  of  a  size  to  be  concealed  shall  keep  a  register  in 
which  all  such  sales  shall  be  entered,  and  shall  require  the 
purchaser  to  produce  a  permit  for  possession  or  carrying 
thereof;  and  every  person  lawfully  coming  into  possession  of 
such  weapon  transferring  it  without  notifying  the  police  au- 
thorities shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor.  Violation  of  the 
prohibition  as  to  owning,  carrying,  manufacturing  and  selling 
is  made  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  imprisonment  of  not 
less  than  thirty  days  or  more  than  one  year;  any  person 
violating  the  act  who  has  previously  been  convicted  of  vio- 
lation thereof  is  guilty  of  a  felony  punishable  by  imprison- 
ment in  a  state  prison  not  exceeding  three  years.  The  Act 
carries  this  drastic  provision  applicable  to  all  misdemeanors: 
"Sec.  7.  Except  in  cases  where  a  different  punishment  is 
prescribed  by  this  Act,  every  offense  declared  to  be  a  mis- 
demeanor is  punishable  by  imprisonment  in  a  county  jail 
not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $500 
or  by  both." 

A.  B.  79.     Lyon.     Identical  with  S.   B.  9.     Finn. 

A.  B.  128,  Gebhart.  Relating  to  the  sale  and  carrying  of 
dangerous   weapons.    ••     . 


208  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Of   the   same   general   purport  as   S.    B.    9.     Finn. 

A.  B.  168.  Mouser.  An  Act  limiting  and  denning  the  right 
of  civilians  to  carry  or  obtain  firearms,  and  all  other  dangerous 
weapons. 

To  the  same  effect  as  S.  B.  9  (Finn)  and  A.  B.  128  (Gebhart). 

S.  B.  632.  Benson.  Relating  to  and  regulating  the  carrying 
and  possession  of  firearms  that  may  be  concealed  upon  the 
person  within  cities,  towns  and  other  municipal  corporations 
of  this  State,  and  providing  for  the  issuance  of  licenses  there- 
for and  regulating  the  sale  thereof;  and  prohibiting  the  sale 
and  disposition  of  firearms  and  ammunition  therefor  to  minors 
within  the  State;  and  prohibiting  the  possession,  carrying, 
manufacturing  and  sale  of  other  dangerous  instruments  and 
weapons  and  the  giving,  transferring  and  disposition  thereof 
to  other  persons  within  this  State;  and  relating  to  the  carrying 
and  possession  of  dangerous  and  deadly  instruments  and 
weapons  by  any  person  who  intends  or  attempts  to  use  the 
same  unlawfully  against  another. 

A.   B.   1084.     Sisson.     Identical  with   S\   B.   632.   Benson. 

FOOD     PRODUCTS. 

S.  B.  940.  Flaherty.  Amending  an  Act  approved  June  5, 
1913,  prohibiting  the  destruction  of  foodstuffs,  food  products 
or  food  articles,  by  adding  thereto  two  new  sections  to  be 
numbered  Sections  3  and  4,  providing  for  the  forfeiture  and 
disposition  of  foodstuffs,  food  products  or  food  articles  about 
to  be  destroyed  in  restraint  of  trade,  and  providing  for  the 
enforcement  of  this  Act  by  the  Fish  and  Game  Commission 
and  by  the  Commission  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

A.  B.  975.  McDonald,  J.  J.  Amending  an  Act  approved 
June  5,  1913,  prohibiting  the  destruction  of  foodstuffs,  food 
products  or  food  articles,  by  adding  thereto  two  new  sections 
be  to  numbered  Sections  3  and  4,  providing  for  the  forfeiture 
and  disposition  of  foodstuffs,  food  products  or  food  articles 
about  to  be  destroyed  in  restraint  of  trade,  and  providing  for 
the  enforcement  of  this  Act  by  the  Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion and  by  the  Commission  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

A.  B.  1053.  McDonald,  W.  A.  Amending  Section  1  of  an 
Act  approved  June  5,  1913,  prohibiting  the  destruction  of  food- 
stuffs,   food   products   or   food   articles. 

FISH     AND     GAME. 

S.  B.  1158.  Finn.  To  empower  the  Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion of  California  to  control  the  business  of  catching  and  sell- 
ing fish,  and  to  buy  fish,  in  order  to  distribute  the  same  to  the 
people,  and  to  fix  prices  to  producer  and  consumer;  makes  it 
unlawful  to  destroy  fish  for  purpose  of  keeping  up  prices  with- 
out first  offering  same  to  Fish  and  Game  Commission.' 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  209 

A.   B.   1453.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.   B.   1158.     Finn. 

S.  B.  181.  Shearer.  To  protect  bear,  and  forbidding  the  use 
of   steel   traps,    etc.,    in   their   pursuit. 

A.  B.   172.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.   181.     Shearer. 

A.  B.  283.  Canepa.  Regulating  the  sale  of  crabs  that  have 
been  shipped  or  imported  into  the  State  of  California  from 
any  point  or  place  outside  of  the  State  of  California  and 
requiring  the  branding  thereof  by  all  persons  selling  or  offer- 
ing the   same   for   sale. 

A.  B.  347.  Canepa  (by  request).  To  provide  for  branding  on 
the  back  of  all  crabs  brought  into  the  State  of  California 
name  of  the  place  where  they  were  caught,  and  providing 
penalty  for  the  violation  thereof. 

S.   B.   655.     Wolfe.     Identical  with  A.   B.   347.     Canepa. 

A.  B.  166.  Lyon.  Prohibiting  fishing  within  three  miles  of 
the  shore  line  of  the  county  of  Los  Angeles,  State  of  California. 

Declares  violation  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less 
than  $20  nor  more  than  $500,  or  imprisonment  in  county  jail 
not  less  than  10  nor  more  than  150  days. 

A.  B.  399.  Pettis.  To  restrict  fishing  in  the  rivers  and 
streams  of  the   County  of  Mendocino,    State   of  California. 

Declares  such  fishing  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of 
not  less  than.  $20  or  more  than  $500,  or  imprisonment  not  less 
than  10  nor  more  than  150  days. 

S.    B.    721.      Benedict.      Identical   with    A.    B.    399.      Pettis. 

A.  B.  545.  Boyce.  To  prohibit  the  use  of  nets  for  taking 
fish   from   the    Salinas   River   and    Elk   Horn    Sloughs. 

S.  B.  681.  Flint.  To  divide  the  State  of  California  into 
twenty-seven  fish  and  game  districts  and  to  repeal  an  Act, 
approved  March  21,  1911,  to  divide  the  State  of  California  into 
six  fish  and  game  districts. 

A.  B.  947.     Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.  681.     Flint. 

A.  B.  772.  Edwards.  To  prohibit  the  use  of  nets,  seines, 
traps,  or  weirs  for  the  catching  of  fish  in  the  waters  of 
Mokelumne  river  and  its  tributaries-,  White  Slough  and  its 
tributaries,  Mud  Slough  and  its  tributaries,  Potato  Slough  and 
its  tributaries,  Little  Connection  Slough  and  its  tributaries, 
Disappointment  Slough  and  its  tributaries  including  the  arti- 
ficial canals  connecting  White  Slough  and  Disappointment 
Slough  and  Fourteen  Mile  Slough  and  its  tributaries,  and  the 
artificial  canals  connecting  Fourteen  Mile  Slough,  and  Dis- 
appointment Slough,  the  Calaveras  River  and  North  Street 
Canal,  Whiskey  Slough  and  its  tributaries  and  Walthall  Slough, 
all  in  the  county  of  San  Joaquin,  State  of  California,  and  to 
provide    for    the    punishment    of    the    violation    thereof. 

A.  B.  606.  Brown,  H.  W.  Relating  to  hunting  licenses 
granting  permission  to  kill  wild  game  for  sale,  providing 
what  such  licenses  shall  state,  by  whom  to  be  issued  and  dis- 


2.10  PENDING    LEGISLATION,   1915. 

position  to  be  made  of  fees,  and  imposing  fine  for  violation 
of  Act. 

S.  B.  1107.  Flint.  To  regulate  the  issuance  of  licenses  for 
resale   to   hunters  and   anglers. 

A.  B.  1443.  Judson.  Providing  for  the  exhibition  of  licenses 
authorizing  the  taking  of  fish  or  game,  and  for  the  display  of 
fish  and  game  upon  the  demand  of  officers  authorized  to  en- 
force the  laws  for  the  protection  of  same. 

A.  B.  726.  Kramer.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  16,  1913,  to  regulate  and  license  the  taking  and 
catching  of  game  fishes  and  to  define  game  fish  and  to  pro- 
vide   revenue    therefrom,    for   fish   preservation  and    restoration. 

A.  B.  727.  Kramer.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  to  regu- 
late and  license  the  hunting  of  wild  birds  and  animals,   etc. 

A.  B.  985.  Shartel.  Amending  an  Act  approved  March  22, 
1909,  to  regulate  and  license  the  hunting  of  wild  birds  and  ani- 
mals, and  to  provide  revenue  therefrom,  for  game  and  fish 
preservation  and  restoration. 

A.  B.  1169.  McCray.  To  regulate  and  license  the  hunting 
of  game  birds  and  animals  and  the  taking  and  catching  of 
game  fish;  to  provide  revenue  from  licenses  for  game  and  fish 
preservation  and  restoration;  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  an  Act, 
approved  March  22,  1909,  to  regulate  and  license  the  hunting 
of  wild  birds  and  animals  and  to  provide  revenue  therefrom 
for  game  and  fish  preservation  and  restoration,  and  to  repeal 
an  Act,  approved  June  16,  1913,  to  regulate  and  license  the 
taking,  and  catching  of  game  fish  and  to  define  game  fish, 
and  to  provide  revenue  therefrom  for  fish  preservation  and 
restoration. 

A.  B.  1445.  Scott,  P.  C.  (by  request).  Amending  an  Act 
approved  March  22,  1909,  to  regulate  and  license  the  hunting 
of  wild  birds  and  animals,  and  to  provide  revenue  therefrom 
for  game  fish  preservation  and  restoration. 

A.  B.  1446.  Scott,  F.  C.  (by  request).  Amending  an  Act 
approved  June  16,  1913,  to  regulate  and  license  the  taking  and 
catching  of  game  fish  and  to  define  game  fish  and  to  provide 
revenue  therefrom,  for  fish  preservation  and  restoration. 

S\  B.  1106.  Flint.  Providing  for  the  disposition  of  fine* 
and  forfeitures  collected  in  all  prosecutions  for  violations  of 
the  laws  of  the  State  referring  to  wild  birds,  wild  animals* 
and  fishes. 

A.  B.  691.  Lostutter.  To  further  divide  the  State  into  fish 
and  game  districts  by  establishing  a  district  specially  suited 
for  propagation  of  game,  and  to  provide  for  the  management 
and    protection    thereof. 

A.  B.  1020.  Kramer.  Dividing  the  State  of  California  into 
seven   fish  and  game  districts  and   repealing  an  Act  approved 


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March   21,   1911.    to  divide  the   State   of   California   into   six   fish 
and  game  districts. 

S.  B.  40.  Anderson.  To  prevent  the  killing  and  destruction 
of  wild  game  within  certain  territory  lying  within  the  boun- 
daries of  the  Cleveland  National  Forest,  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia,   and   providing   a   penalty   therefor. 

A.    B.    Hi.      Burke.      Identical   with    S.    B.    40— Anderson. 

A.  B.  636.  Burke  (by  request).  To  prevent  the  killing  and 
destruction  of  wild  game  within  certain  territory  lying  within 
the  boundaries  of  the  Los  Angeles  National  Forest,  in  the 
State   of   California,    and    providing-    a   penalty    therefor. 

S.  B.  939.  Anderson.  To  prevent  the  killing  and  destruc- 
tion of  wild  game  within  certain  territory  lying  within  the 
boundaries  of  the  Angeles  National  Forest,  in  the  State  of 
California,  and  providing  a  penalty  therefor. 

A.   B.   1114.     Fish.     Identical  with  S.   B.  939.     Anderson. 

S.  B.  1032.  Carr.  To  prevent  the  destruction  of  wild  game 
within  certain  territory  lying  within  the  boundaries  of  the 
Angeles   National    Forest,    and   providing   a   penalty   therefor. 

Creates  a  game  refuge  to  be  known  as  the  "Sierra  Madre 
Game    Preserve". 

FLOOD    CONTROL    DISTRICTS. 

(See  also  Reclamation  and  Drainage.) 
S.  B.  459.  Benedict  and  Carr.  To  provide  for  the  formation, 
organization,  government  and  dissolution  of  flood  control  dis- 
tricts, in  the  State  of  California,  the  boundaries  of  which  dis- 
tricts shall  be  coterminous  with  the  boundaries  of  the  counties 
in  which  formed,  to  be  known  as  county  flood  control  districts, 
for  the  purpose  of  protecting  the  land  therein  from  damage 
from  storm  waters  and  from  the  waters  of  innavigable  streams, 
water  courses,  canyons  or  washes,  and  for  the  purpose  of  sav- 
ing and  conserving  storm,  flood  or  snow  water  for  beneficial 
and  useful  purposes;  for  the  construction  of  the  necessary 
works  of  protection  and  conservation  and  distribution  of  such 
storm  or  flood  waters  by  said  flood  control  districts;  for  bond- 
ing and  assessing  such  flood  control  districts,  for  the  cost  of 
constructing  and  maintaining  such  improvements,  and  for 
levying  taxes  and  assessments  to  pay  the  costs  of  repairing 
and  maintaining  such  improvements  when  constructed  and  for 
the  dissolution  of  any  such  districts. 

A.  B.  79 7.  Edwards.  To  validate  the  organization  of  levee 
districts. 

FORESTS    AND     FORESTRY. 

S.  B.  348.  Kehoe.  Creating  the  office  of  State  forester  and 
.providing  for  the  appointment  and  revocation  of  appointment 
of  a  proper  person  thereto;   prescribing  the  powers  and  duties 


212  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

of  the  State  forester  and  fixing  his  salary;  providing  for  the 
appointment  and  revocation  of  appointment  of  "assistant  for- 
esters and  fixing  their  duties  and  salaries;  providing  for  the 
appointment  of  and  revocation  of  appointment  of  fire  wardens 
and  prescribing  their  duties  and  mode  of  compensation;  pro- 
viding for  co-operative  agreements  between  the  State  Con- 
servation Commission  and  persons,  firms,  associations,  or  cor- 
porations, or  any  combinations  or  groups  of  such  persons, 
fiims,  associations  or  corporations  and  for  agreements  between 
the  State  Conservation  Commission  and  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment; declaring  certain  fires  to  be  public  nuisances,  and  re- 
quiring those  owning  or  controlling  lands  upon  which  said 
nuisances  exist  to  abate  them;  declaring  certain  inflammable 
debris  to  be  public  nuisances,  providing  for  their  inspection 
and  abatement;  authorizing  and  providing  for  the  summary 
abatement  of  all  nuisances  declared  by  this  Act;  making  the 
cost  of  the  abatement  of  certain  nuisances  a  lien  upon  the 
land  upon  which  said  nuisances  are  situated;  providing  for 
the  filing  and  the  satisfying  of  claims  for  such  liens  and  the 
recovery  of  costs  accruing  for  said  filing  and  satisfaction; 
providing  for  the  satisfaction  of  such  liens  by  district  attor- 
neys and  the  compensation  of  district  attorneys  therefor;  de- 
claring the  duties  of  those  owning  or  controlling  lands  on 
which  fires  may  burn;  providing  for  the  payment  in  the 
county  treasuries  of  moneys  collected  under  the  penal  section 
of  this  Act;  providing  penalties  for  violating  the  provisions 
of  this  Act;  defining  the  word  "Forest;"  repealing  Chapter 
264  of  the  Laws  of  1905  as  amended  by  the  Act  of  -April -7, 
1911,  and  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act;  providing  for  the  designation  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  491.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  348.     Kehoe. 

S.'B."  357.  Mott.  Providing  for  the  acquisition  by  purchase 
or  gift,  of  lands  for  reforestation  and  agricultural  purposes; 
for  the  management  and  control  of  same;  for  the  distribution 
of  seeds  and  seedlings;  and  appropriating  money  to  carry  out 
the  provisions   of  this  Act. 

A.  B.   351.     Pettis,     identical  with  S.'B'.   357.     Mott. 

S.  B.  460.  Benedict,  Providing  for  the  protection  of  public 
and  private  forest  lands  by  regulation  and  prevention  of  fires; 
creating  the  office  of  state  forester,  and  fixing  his  powers  and 
duties;  prescribing  penalties  for  violation  of  the  provisions 
hereof;  repealing  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the 
regulation  of  fires  on,  and  the  protection  and  management  of, 
public  and  private  forest  lands  within  the  State  of  California, 
creating  a  State  -hoard-:  of  forestry,  and  certain  officers  sub- 
ordinate to  said  board,  prescribing  the  duties  of  such  officers, 
creating  a  forestry  fund,  and  -appropriating  the  moneys  in 
said;  fund,   and   defining  and  providing  .for   the   punishment   of 


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certain  offenses  for  violations  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act, 
and  making  an  appropriation  therefor/'  approved  March  18, 
1905,   and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith. 

A.  B.  605.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.   460.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  575.  Shartel.  Relating  to  the  conservation  of  forests; 
prohibiting  the  cutting  of  small  trees,  and  providing  penalties 
for  violations   hereof. 

FRANCHISES. 

A.  B.  1003.  Avey  (by  request).  Amending  Section  6  of  an 
Act  approved  March  22,  1905,  as  amended  March  3,  1909,  to 
provide  for  the  sale  of  street  railroad  and  other  franchises  in 
counties  and  municipalities,  and  providing  conditions  for  the 
granting  of  such  franchises  by  legislative  or  other  governing 
bodies,  and  repealing  conflicting  Acts. 

S.  B.  996.  King.  Relating  to  franchises  heretofore  or  here- 
after granted  under  •  existing  laws  and  the  exercise  of  fran- 
chise rights  thereunder  by  ^public  utilities  and  the  supervisory 
or  regulating  power  of  the  Rialroad  Commission,  under  the 
provisions  of  the  "Public  Utilities  Act". 

A.  B.  1451.     Johnson.     Identical  with  S.  B.  996.     King, 

FRATERNAL    BENEFIT    SOCIETIES. 

...  -  (See  also  Civil  Code.)      - 

S.  B.  580.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
May  1st,  1911,  for  the  regulation  and  control  of  fraternal  benefit 
societies. 

A.  B.  142.  Ellis.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act  approved 
May  1,  1911,  for  the  regulation  and  control  of  fraternal  bene- 
fit societies. 

GAMBLING. 

(See  also  Penal  Code.) 
A.  B.  175.  Browne.  Prohibiting  the  playing  of  games  with 
cards,  dice  or  any  device  for  money  and  making  violation  a 
misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  not  to  exceed  $500  or  im- 
prisonment not  less  than  30  or  more  than  90  days;  declaring 
all  buildings  and  places  nuisances  wherein  or  upon  which  any 
such  games  are  opened  or  played,  and  providing  that  district 
attorney  or  any  citizen  may  maintain  an  action  to  abate  such 
nuisance.  If  nuisance  be  established  order  of  abatement  shall 
be  entered  and  plaintiff's  costs  shall  be  a  lien  on  such  building, 
enforcible  and  collectible  by  execution.  Violation  of  any  in- 
junction or  order  shall  be  punished  as  contempt  of  court  by 
fine  of  not  less  than  $200  or.  more  than  $1000  or  by  imprison- 
ment not  less  than  one  or  more  than  six  months,  or  both,  such 
fine  for  contempt  to  be  a_  lien;  oh  building  to  extent  of  owner 


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therein.  "Person"  defined  to  mean  and  include  individuals, 
corporations,  associations,  partnerships,  trustees,  lessees,  agents 
and  assignees. 

HARBOR    COMMISSIONERS    OF    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

S.  B.  89.  Finn.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  to  amend 
an  Act  approved  March  25,  1901,  empowering  and  authoriz- 
ing the  Board  of  State  Harbor  Commissioners  to  insure 
against  loss  or  damage  by  fire  the  property  of  the  State 
of  California  located  on  ..the  water  front  of  San  Francisco, 
California,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  amendatory  thereof, 
relating  to  the  aggregate  amount  of  insurance  and  the  cost 
thereof.  Fixes  the  amount  of  insurance  at  $1,200,000,  the 
post   not  to   exceed    $24,000   in   premiums   for   3   year   policies. 

A.    B.    32.      Kennedy.      Identical   with    S.    B.    89.      Finn. 

HARBOR     DISTRICTS. 

A.  B.  1137.  Burke.  Providing  .for  the  organization,  incor- 
poration and  government  of  harbor  districts,  authorizing  the 
acquirement,  construction,  maintenance,  operation^  develop- 
ment and  regulation  .of  a   system   of  harbor  improvements. 

HIGHWAYS. 

(See  also  Engineering,  Department  of;  Penal  Code;  Appro- 
priations.) 

S.  B.  313.  Mott.  Creating  for  the  State  of  California  a 
division  of  county  highways  of  the  State  Department  of  Engi- 
neering; to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  an  assistant  State 
Engineer  to  take  charge  of  the  division  of  county  highways, 
and  prescribing-  his  duties;  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of 
county  highway  engineers  for  the  several  counties  of  the  State 
and  prescribing  their  duties;  fixing  and  providing  for  the 
salaries  and  expenses  of  the  engineers  whose  appointment  is 
herein  provided  for  and  the  necessary  expenses  of  the  division 
of   county  highways. 

A.  B.  289.     Scott  and  Ream.     Identical  with  S.  B.  313.     Mott. 

A.  B.  868.  Sharkey.  To  create  a  county  highway  depart- 
ment for  each  county  of  the  State  of  California;  to  provide 
for  the  appointment  of  a  county  highway  engineer  for  each 
department;  to  provide  for  the  compensation  of  such  officer 
and  to  define  his  duties;  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of 
his  assistants;  to  authorize  the  purchase  and  acquisition  of 
ail  necessary  equipment  and  instrumentalities  to  carry  out 
the  objects   of  this  Act;   to  etc. 

A.  B.  1043.  Widenmann.  Creating  a  division  of  County 
Highways  of  the  State  Department  of  Engineering;  to  provide 
for  the  appointment  of  an  Assistant  State  Engineer  to  take 
charge   of   the   Division   of   County   Highways,    and   prescribing 


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his  duties;  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  County  Highway 
Engineers  for  the  several  counties  of  the  State  and  prescribing 
their  duties;  fixing  and  providing  for  the  salaries  and  expenses 
of  the  engineers  whose  appointment  is  herein  provided  for  and 
the    necessary   expenses   of    the   Division   of   County   Highways. 

Creates  the  Division  of  County  Highways  of  the  State  De- 
partment of  Engineering  under  the  supervision  of  the  State 
Engineer,  but  directly  under  the  charge  of  a  competent  civil 
engineer  of  at  least  seven  years'  actual  experience  in  road 
construction,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Engineer, 
with  the  approval  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  department  of 
engineering  and   as  an   assistant   to   the    State   Engineer. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Assistant  State  Engineer  in 
charge  of  the  division  to  visit  each  county  in  the  State  at 
least  once  each  year,  make  a  thorough  examination  of  the 
roads,  bridges  and  other  public  works  and  consult  and  advise 
with  the  Board  of  Supervisors  and  county  highway  engineer. 

The  Assistant  State  Engineer  in  charge  of  the  division  of 
county  highways  shall  be  paid  an  annual  salary  of  $4500. 

A  competent  civil  engineer  who  has  had  at  least  five  years 
of  practical  experience  in  actual  road  construction  shall  be 
appointed  as  county  highway  engineer  for  each  of  the  several 
counties  of  the  State  in  the  same  manner  and  by  the  same 
authority  as  the  Assistant  State  Engineer  in  charge  of  the 
division  of  county  highways.  He  shall  receive  a  compensation 
of   not   less   than   $2000  per   year   nor   more   than    $4000. 

For  the  small  counties  of  the  State,  the  State  Engineer 
may  assign  one  county  highway  engineer  to   two   counties. 

A.  B.  49.  Meek.  Creating  the  office  of  County  Highway  En- 
gineer in  and  for  each  county;  providing  the  term  of  office  and 
compensation  of  such  officer;  defining  his  duties;  providing 
for  the  appointment  of  his  assistants,  and  authorizing  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  of  each  county  to  purchase  and  obtain 
all  necessary  equipment  and  instrumentalities  to  carry  out 
the    objects    of    this    Act. 

S.  B.  532.  Owens  (by  request).  Authorizing  the  use  of 
convict  labor  on  State  highways;  regulating  the  handling  of 
such  labor;  authorizing  extra  good  time  allowance;  and  pro- 
viding penalties  for  interference. 

A.   B.   547.     Meek.     Identical  with  S.   B.   532.     Owens. 

S.  B.  1122.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  8  of  an  Act  approved 
March  22,  1909,  authorizing  the  construction,  acquisition, 
maintenance  and  control  of  a  system  of  State  highways  in  the 
State  of  California;  specifying  the  work,  fixing  the  payments 
to  be  made  by  counties  for  moneys  expended  therein;  pro- 
viding for  the  issuance  and  sale  of  State  bonds  to  create  a 
fund  for  the  construction  and  acquisition  of  such  system; 
creating  a   sinking  fund   for   the  payment   of  said   bonds;   and 


216  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

providing  for  the  submission  of  this  Act  to  a  vote  of  the  peo- 
ple, approved,  ratified  and  adopted  by  the  people  of  the  State 
of  California  at  the  general  election  held  in  the  month  of 
November,  1910,  A.  D.,  relative  to  the  reimbursement  to  the 
State  by  the  several  counties  thereof  of  sums  equal  to  the 
interest  upon  certain  outstanding  bonds,  and  the  proceeds  of 
sale  thereof,  sold  and  applied  as  in  said  Act  provided,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  submission  of  this  Act  to  a  vote  of  the  people. 

A.   B.   1373.     Tabler.     Identical   with   S.   B.   1122.     Kehoe. 

S.  B.  549.  Birdsall.  Regulating  the  making  of  openings  or 
the  placing  of  structures  or  the  change  or  renewal  of  any 
structure  and  the  planting  or  removal  of  trees  or  shrubs  or 
the  placing  of  obstructions  in  or  on  State  roads  and  highways; 
providing  for  the  issuance  of  permits  by  the  State  Depart- 
ment of  Engineering  relative  thereto,  and  for  the  laying  or 
placing  pipes,  conduits,  sewers,  poles,  wires,  railways,  ob- 
structions and  other  objects,  and  for  the  planting,  trimming 
or  removal  of  trees  or  shrubs  in  or  on  State  roads  and  high- 
ways; providing  for  the  requirement  of  bonds  from  applicants 
before  the  issuance  of  such  permits;  and  prescribing  the 
penalty   for  violations   of   the   provisions   of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  745.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.   B.  549.     Birdsall. 

S.  B.  552.  Birdsall.  To  provide  for  the  care,  management 
and  protection  of  State  highways  and  providing  penalties  for 
violations   of   the   provisions   of   the   Act. 

A.  B.   749.     Scott,  F.   C.     Identical  with  S.   B.   552.     Birdsall. 

S.  B.  553.  Birdsall.  To  provide  for  the  abandonment  of 
State  roads  and  highways  by  the  State  Department  of  Engi- 
neering. 

A.  B.  746.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.  553.     Birdsall. 

S.  B.  602.  Carr.  To  provide  for  the  laying  out,  opening, 
extending,  widening,  or  straightening,  in  whole  or  in  part  of 
public  highways,  squares,  lands,  alleys,  parks,  storm  water 
drains,  settling  basins,  courts,  and  places,  within  counties, 
for  the  condemnation  of  property  necessary  or  convenient  for 
such  purposes,  and  for  the  establishment  of  assessment  dis- 
tricts and  the  assessment  of  property  therein  to  pay  the 
expense   of  such   improvement. 

A.  B.  621.  Harris.  Declaring  section  lines  running  through 
all  agricultural  lands  in  this  State  and  the  lands  on  each  side 
thereof,  for  a  distance  of  twenty  feet,  public  highways,  and 
providing  for  the  condemnation  of  such  lands  and  for  the 
opening   of   such   highways. 

S.  B.  45.  Birdsall.  Declaring  the  wagon  road  extending 
from  the  western  end  of  the  Lake  Tahoe  state  wagon  road  to 
the  eastern  limits  of  the  City  of  Placerville  to  be  a  State  high- 
way. 

S.   B.   892-.    Birdsall.    Providing  for  the  construction,   acquisi- 


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tion  and  maintenance  of  a  system  of  State  lateral  highways 
connecting  each  county  seat  with  the  nearest  State  main  line 
highway;  providing  for  the  issuance  and  sale  of  State  bonds 
to  create  a  fund  for  the  payment  of  said  bonds;  and  providing 
for  the  submission  of  this  Act  to  a  vote  of  the  people. 

A.  B.  1019.  Kramer.  Declaring  and  establishing  a  State 
highway  from  the  intersection  of  the  Foxen  Canyon  road  and 
Tepusquet  Canyon  road  in  the  County  of  Santa  Barbara  to 
the  boundary  line  between  the  counties  of  San  Luis  Obispo 
and  Kern,  and  to  be  known  as  the  Tepusquet-Cuyama  State 
Highway. 

A.  B.  992.  Burke.  Amending  Section  12  of  an  Act  to  provide 
for  the  formation  and  establishment  of  boulevard  districts;  the 
construction,  acquisition,  maintenance,  control  and  use  of 
boulevards;  defining  the  term  boulevard;  providing  for  the 
voting,  issuing  and  selling  of  bonds,  and  the  levying  of  taxes 
to  pay  for  the  acquisition,  construction,  maintenance  and  re- 
pair  of   such    boulevards,    etc. 

S.  B.  958.  Ballard  (by  request).  Identical  with  A.  B.  992. 
Burke. 

A.  B.  678.  Avey.  Amending  Section  20  of  an  Act  approved 
May  1,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  formation  and  establishment 
of  boulevard  districts,  etc.,  relating  to  the  amount  to  be 
raised   by   the   issuance   of   bonds. 

HORTICULTURE. 

S.  B.  861.  Chandler.  Creating  the  office  of  State  commis- 
sioner of  horticulture,  denning  his  powers  and  duties;  pre- 
scribing for  the  appointment  of  inspectors,  and  defining  their 
powers  and  duties;  providing  for  the  inspection  of  nursery 
stock,  fruit,  fruit  trees,  ornamental  trees,  shrubbery,  plants, 
cuttings,  grafts,  buds,  scions,  seeds,  pits,  vines,  vegetables 
and  all  horticultural  and  agricultural  plants  and  plant  products 
thereof;  requiring  shippers  of  nursery  stock  to  have  same 
inspected  by  an  inspector;  prescribing  quarantine  and  the 
method  employed  thereunder;  providing  for  the  disinfection 
of  fruit,  fruit  trees,  ornamental  trees  and  shrubbery,  and  all 
horticultural  and  agricultural  plants  and  plant  products  there- 
of; denning  the  qualifications  of  inspectors  and  commissioners; 
providing  for  the  destruction  of  infested  and  infected  fruit, 
fruit  trees,  ornamental  trees,  shrubbery  and  all  horticultural 
and  agricultural  plants  and  plant  products  thereof,  including 
a  lien  against  the  property  whereon  the  same  is  standing  or 
growing,  and  providing  for  a  right  of  action  for  all  expenses 
incident  thereto;  authorizing  the  destruction  of  fruit,  fruit 
trees,  shrubbery,  nursery  stock  and  all  horticultural  and  agri- 
cultural plants  and  plant  products  thereof  infested  or  infected 
with   pest   or  disease,   and   prescribing   a    salary   for   those   en- 


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joined  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  for  their  re- 
moval from  office;  to  provide  for  the  appropriation  of  money  to 
pay  the  necessary  expenses  of  the  conduct  of  the  office  of  State 
Commissioner   of   Horticulture,    and   repealing-   certain   sections. 

S.  B.   862.     Chandler.      Identical  with   A.    B.    851.     Ashley. 

S.  B.  1.  Anderson.  Regulating  the  distribution  of  date 
palms  and  date  palm  offshoots  and  to  hold  the  same  in  quar- 
antine under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Commissioner  of 
Horticulture  until  they  are  free  from  Marlatt  Scale  (Phoeni- 
cococcus  Marlatti)  and  Blanchard  Scale  (Parlatori  Blanch - 
ardii)  when  introduced  from  or  grown  in,  any  infected  local- 
ity within  the  State  or  from  other  states,  or  if  of  foreign 
introduction,  after  they  have  been  released  by  the  Federal 
Horticultural  Board,  and  fixing  a  penalty  for  violation  of 
this    Act. 

Makes  it  unlawful  to  plant  scale  infested  date  palms  or  date 
palm  offshoots  except  under  the  supervision  and  direction  of 
the  State  quarantine  guardian  of  the  county;  also  makes  it 
unlawful  to  move  such  scale  infested  date  palms  or  offshoots 
without  permission  of  the  State  quarantine  guardian  or  until 
inspection  has  shown  that  the  palms  are  entirely  free  from 
scale.      Violation    declared   a   misdemeanor. 

A.    B.    20.      Wills.      Identical   with   S.    B.    1.     Anderson. 

A.  B.  1212.  Avey.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3  and  6  of  an 
Act  to  provide  for  the  protection  of  horticulture  and  to  pre- 
vent the  introduction  into  this  State  of  insects  or  diseases,  etc. 

S.  B.  476.  Jones.  To  establish  a  horticultural  experiment 
station  to  be  known  as  the  "California  Deciduous  Fruit  Ex- 
periment Station,"  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  and  man- 
agement thereof,   and  appropriating  $50,000   therefor. 

A.  B.  851.  Ashley.  To  establish  a  standard  for  the  State 
of  California  for  packing  of  fresh  fruits  for  sale  or  for  trans- 
portation for  sale,  for  interstate  and  foreign  shipment,  and 
to  prevent  deception  in  the  packing  of  fresh  fruits  for  such 
purposes. 

A.  B.  243.  McPherson.  Establishing  a  standard  for  the 
packing  and  marketing  of  apples,  fixing  penalties  for  the  viola- 
tion   of    its   provisions,    and    providing   for    its    enforcement. 

S.  B.  657.  King.  Regulating  the  sale  or  transportation  of 
immature  oranges;  preventing  deception  in  the  packing  of 
oranges;  and  prescribing  penalties  for  the  violation  of  the 
provisions   hereof. 

A.   B.   754.     Avey.     Identical  with   S.   B.   657.     King. 

S.  B.  658.  King.  Regulating  the  sale  and  shipment  of  citrus 
fruits  damaged  by  frost,  and  prescribing  penalties  for  the 
violation   of   the   provisions   thereof. 

A.   B.   753.     Avey.     Identical  with   S.    B.    658.     King. 


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HOSPITALS    AND     NURSES. 

A.  B.  1337.  Sisson.  To  provide  for  the  formation,  govern- 
ment, operation  and  dissolution  of  hospital  districts  in  any 
part  of  the  State,  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of 
hospitals,  the  acquisition  of  property  thereby;  the  calling  and 
conducting  of  elections  in  such  districts;  the  assessment,  levy, 
collection,  custody,  and  disbursement  of  taxes  therein;  the 
issuance  and  disposal  of  the  bonds  thereof,  and  the  determina- 
tion of  their  validity  and  making  provisions  for  the  payment 
of  such  bonds,   and  the  disposal  of  their  proceeds. 

S.  B.  967.  Benson.  To  establish  a  State  Hospital  for  the 
care,  custody  and  maintenance  of  inebriates  and  drug  habitues 
within  the  State  of  California,  to  be  known  as  the  California 
State  Hospital,  and  to  provide  for  the  government  and  man- 
agement  thereof,   and   making  an   appropriation   therefor. 

A.  B.  1321.  Hayes.  To  establish  a  State  hospital  for  the 
care,  custody  and  maintenance  of  inebriates  and  drug  habitues 
within  the  State  of  California,  to  be  known  as  the  California 
State  Hospital  and  to  provide  for  the  government  and  man- 
agement thereof,   and  appropriating  $25,000  therefor. 

A.  B.  807.  Fish.  To  establish  a  home  for  the  care  and 
training  of  feeble-minded  and  defective  persons  in  Southern 
California  and  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  the  same, 
and  appropriating  $60,000   therefor. 

HOTELS  AND  LODGING  HOUSES. 

A.  B.  36.  Gelder.  Relating  to  hotels,  defining  the  same, 
providing  regulations  in  connection  therewith,  providing  for 
the  sanitation  of  the  rooms  of  such  hotels,  providing  for  the 
sanitary  method  and  manner  of  keeping,  handling  and  using 
bed  clothes  or  bed  covering  in  such  hotels,  repealing  all  Acts 
or  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  providing  for  its 
enforcement  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  providing  a 
penalty   for   the  violation   of  any  of  its   provisions. 

S.  B.  442.  Flaherty.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  16, 
1913,  to  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy  of  hotels  and 
lodging  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated  cities,  and 
cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation 
thereof. 

A.   B.   1129.     Salisbury.     Identical  with  S.   B.   442.     Flaherty. 

S.  B.  1097.  Flaherty.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  16, 
1913,  to  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy  of  hotels  and 
lodging  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated  cities,  and 
cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation 
thereof. 

A.   B.   1326.     Kennedy.     Identical  with   S.    B.    1097.     Flaherty. 

S.  B.  1179.  Brown.  Amending  Section  6  of  an  Act  approved 
June     16,     1913,     to    regulate     the    building    and     occupancy    of 


220  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

hotels  and  lodging  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated 
cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation 
thereof. 

S.  B.  732.  Flaherty.  Amending  Sections  7  and  8  of  an  Act, 
approved  June  16,  1913,  to  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy 
of  hotels  and  lodging-houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated 
cities,  and  cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the 
violation  thereof. 

A.  B.   760.     Schmitt.     Identical  with  S.  B.  732.     Flaherty. 

A.  B.  884.  Collins  (by  request).  To  compel  owners,  lessees, 
proprietors  or  managers  of  certain  factories,  hotels,  and  lodg- 
ing-houses to  provide  a  means  of  escape  from  such  factories, 
hotels  and  lodging-houses  in  case  of  fire. 

IMMIGRATION     AND     HOUSING. 

A.  B.  574.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  10  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  12,  1913,  S'tats.  1913,  p.  608,  relating  to  immigrants 
and  immigration,  creating  a  Commission  of  Immigration  and 
Housing,  providing  for  the  employment  by  said  commission 
of  a  secretary,  agents  and  other  employees,  authorizing  said 
commission  to  fix  their  compensaton,  prescribing  the  duties 
of  said  commission,  providing  for  the  investigation  by  said 
commission  of  all  things  affecting  immigrants,  and  for  the 
care,  protecton  and  welfare  of  immigrants,  and  making  an  ap- 
propriation for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions 
hereof. 

S.  B.  601.     Carr.     Identical  with  A.  B.  574.     Shartel. 

S.  B.  824.  Beban.  Adding  Section  10a  (new)  to  an  Act 
approved  June  12,  1913,  relating  to  immigrants  and  immigra- 
tion, creating  a  commission  of  immigration  and  housing,  pro- 
viding for  the  employment  by  said  commission  of  a  secre- 
tary, agents  and  other  employees,  authorizing  said  commis- 
sion to  fix  their  compensation,  prescribing  the  duties  of  said 
commission,  providing  for  the  investigation  by  said  commis- 
sion of  all  things  affecting  immigrants,  and  for  their  care, 
protection  and  welfare  of  immigrants,  and  making  an  appro- 
priation for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  hereof, 
relating  to   the   translation   of  contracts  and   other  documents. 

A.  B.   883.     Collins.     Identical  with  S.   B.   824.     Beban. 

S.  B.  679.  Flaherty.  Adding  Sections  15,  16  and  17  (new)  to 
an  Act,  approved  June  12,  1913,  relating  to  immigrants  and 
immigration,  creating  a  commission  of  immigration  and  hous- 
ing, providing  for  the  employment  by  said  commission  of  a 
secretary,  agents  and  other  employees,  authorizing  said  com- 
mission to  fix  their  compensation,  prescribing  the  duties  of 
said  commission,  providing  for  the  investigation  by  said  com- 
mission of  all  things  affecting  immigrants,  and  for  the  care 
protection   arid  welfare  of  immigrants,   and  making  an  appro- 


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propriation  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions 
hereof,  relating  to  investigating  housing  of  working  people 
and  city  planning;  receipt  of  reports  annually  of  all  local 
housing  and  city  planning  commissions  in  the  State;  and  mak- 
ing an  annual  report  on  housing  and  city  planning  to  the 
Governor. 

A.  B.   719.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.  B.  679.     Flaherty. 

S.  B.  801.  Flaherty.  Providing  for  the  establishment  by 
the  Commission  of  Immigration  and  Housing  of  California  of 
zones  or  areas  on  docks  where  immigrants  are  landed;  pre- 
scribing the  powers  and  duties  of  the  said  commission  with 
regard  thereto;  and  providing  a  penalty  for  violation  of  the 
provisions   hereof. 

A.  B.  827.     Edwards.     Identical  with  S.  B'.   801.     Flaherty. 

INDUSTRIAL    COMMISSION     AND     INVESTIGATION. 

.  S.  B.  256.  Lyon.  Establishing  an  industrial  commission,  to 
define  its  powers  and  duties,  to  provide  for  a  review  of  its 
orders,  decisions,  and  awards,  and  making  an  appropriation 
therefor. 

A.  B.  447.  Downing.  To  create  for  the  State  of  California  a 
bureau  of  industrial  investigation  and  to  provide  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  officers  and  employees  thereof,  defining  its 
powers  and  prescribing  the  duties  of  said  bureau,  its  officers 
and  employees,  to  make  appropriation  for  the  salaries  and  other 
expenses  of  said  bureau. 

Charged  with  the  duty  of  investigating  the  quantity  of  hydro- 
electric power  available  in  this  State,  with  reference  to  cost; 
the  cost  of  appropriating  such  power  by  the  State  for  all  State, 
municipal  and  commercial  purposes;  to  investigate  the  average 
cost  per  mile  of  constructing  and  equipping  electric  railroad 
systems;  to  extend  from  Red  Bluff  to  San  Diego,  with  lateral 
lines  to  industrial  and  commercial  centers;  the  cost  of  con- 
structing and  establishing  cold  storage  plants,  ocean  steamship 
freight  and  passenger  line  between  Pacific  and  Atlantic  ports, 
hydro-electric  plants,   such   other  plants  as  may  be  necessary. 

INFERIOR    COURTS. 

A.  B.  1086.  Ellis.  Creating  an  Inferior  Court  in  each  county 
in  this  State  to  supersede  Justice's  Courts  and  have  jurisdic- 
tion over  all  matters  now  heard  by  Justices  of  the  Peace;  pro- 
viding for  judges  to  preside  over  said  Inferior  Court;  fixing  a 
time  for  the  election  of  said  judges,  the  length  of  their  term 
of  office  and  their  compensation,  and  defining  their  qualifica- 
tions and  duties;  providing  for  the  transfer  of  all  Justice 
Court  records  to  said  Inferior  Court  and  for  the  determination 
of    all    matters    pending    at    the    time    of    such    transfer 


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INHERITANCE    TAX. 

A.  B.  806.  Downing.  Amending  Section  6  of  an  Act  entitled 
"An  Act  to  establish  a  tax  on  gifts,  legacies,  inheritances, 
bequests,  devises,  successions  and  transfers,  etc.",  relating  to 
rates  of  tax. 

S.  B.  1012.  Luce.  Amending  Sections  6  and  9  of  an  Act, 
approved  June  16,  1913,  known  as  the  "Inheritance  Tax  Act", 
relating   to   rate   of   tax,   and   to  appraisements. 

INITIATIVE     AND     REFERENDUM. 

(See    also    Constitutional    Amendments.) 

S.  B.  277.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved January  2,  1912,  to  provide  for  direct  legislation  by 
cities  and  towns,   including  initiative  and  referendum. 

S.  B.  871.  Scott.  To  facilitate  the  operation  and  to  carry 
into  effect  the  initiative  and  referendum  powers  reserved  by 
the  people  in  Section  1  of  Article  IV  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
State  of  California;  to  regulate  the  circulating,  signing,  filing 
and  certifying  of  petitions  thereunder;  to  regulate  elections 
thereunder;  to  punish  violations  of  this  Act  and  provisions 
of  said  Section  1  of  Article  IV  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State 
of  California. 

S.  B.  872.  Scott.  To  facilitate  the  operation  and  to  carry 
into  effect  the  recall  power  reserved  by  the  people  in  Article 
XXIII  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  California;  to  regu- 
late the  circulating,  signing,  filing  and  certifying  of  petitions 
thereunder;  to  regulate  elections  thereunder;  to  punish  viola- 
tions of  said  Article  XXIII  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of 
California. 

S.  B.  10S8.  Chandler  (by  request).  To  regulate  the  signing 
and  circulation  of  initiative,  referendum  and  recall  petitions 
required   by  law   to   be  filed   with   the   Secretary  of   State. 

INTEREST     RATE. 

(See  Civil  Code;  see  Usury.) 

A.  B.  542.  Benton  (by  request).  Fixing  the  maximum  rate 
of  interest  which  may  be  charged  for  a  loan  or  forbearance 
of  money,  goods  or  things  in  action;  and  prescribing  penalties 
and  forfeitures  for  violations  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

A.  B.  812.  McKnight.  To  establish  a  lawful  rate  of  interest 
and  to  regulate  the  making  of  certain  loans  limiting  the  charges 
therefor;  to  require  and  regulate  the  licensing  of  lenders,  fixing 
the  fee  therefor,  and  to  prescribe  penalties  for  violation  of  this 
Act. 

Provides  that  any  rate  of  interest  not  exceeding  12  per  cent 
per  annum  shall  be  legal,  and  forbids  charging  of  any  greater 
sum;    permits  persons,    etc.,    complying   with   this  Act   to   loan 


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money  at  interest  and  charge  therefor  brokerage  fees  and 
charges,  in  addition  to  12  per  cent.  Such  persons,  etc.,  shall 
make  application  in  writing  to  clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  for 
a  license,  which  application  shall  be  published,  and  heard  by 
a  judge  of  said  court,  and  if  court  deem  proper,  a  license  to 
loan  money  shall  be  issued  to  applicant  for  one  year,  upon 
applicant  giving  $5000  bond  and  paying  license  fee  of  $100. 
License  shall  entitle  holder  to  do  business  at  only  one  location 
in  county,  and  shall  not  give  holder  right  to  loan  money, 
conduct  or  solicit  business,  except  by  advertising  in  the  news- 
papers, either  by  agents,  solicitors  or  mailed  matter  or  other- 
wise, outside  of  the  county;  a  separate  license  must  be  secured 
in  order  to  do  business  in  any  other  location  in  the  county, 
for  each  place,  and  the  fee  of  $100  paid  therefor;  license  shall 
not  issue  to  one  not  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  or  to  person 
convicted  of  forgery,  etc.  Brokerage  fee  shall  not  be  more 
than  one-tenth  of  amount  loaned,  and  not  to  exceed  $3  for  fees 
or  charges  on  all  loans  not  exceeding  $50;  same  fees  may  be 
charged  for  renewals;  any  person  who  may  be  charged  more 
than  provided  herein  may  recover  it  back  with  interest  at  12 
per  cent  by  action  at  law.  Card  shall  be  given  borrower  at 
time  of  loan  setting  forth  this  fact;  receipts  shall  be  given 
for  all  payments;  loans  on  security  of  money  to  be  paid  to 
borrower  by  some  third  person  shall  not  be  made,  unless 
assignment  is  dated  same  day  as  loan  was  made,  and  filed 
with  such  third  person.  Licensee  shall  not  ask  or  accept  from 
any  actual  or  intending  borrower  any  power  of  attorney  to 
sign,  make  or  execute  any  note,  etc.,  to  pay  any  money,  and 
any  note  so  made  shall  be  void.  Violation  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  more  than  $500  for  first 
offense  and  for  each  subsequent  offense,  a  like  fine,  and  im- 
prisonment not  to  exceed  six  months  and  revocation  of  license; 
Act  shall  not  apply  to  banks,  trust  companies,  building  asso- 
ciations or  pawnbrokers. 

INSURANCE. 

(See  also  Civil   Code;   Political   Code.) 
S.    B.   569.     Benedict.     To   incorporate   standard   provisions   in 
policies  of  accident  and   health  insurance,   to  prevent  discrimi- 
nations  in   connection   therewith  and   to  prescribe  penalties  for 
violations  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

Requires  form  of  all  policies  of  insurance  against  loss  or 
damage  from  sickness,  bodily  injury  or  death  of  insured  by 
accident  to  be  approved  by  Insurance  Commissioner;  forms 
not  so  approved  shall  not  be  used;  action  of  Commissioner 
refusing  right  to  use  policy  form  may  be  reviewed  by  courts. 
No  such  policies  shall  be  issued  unless  they  set  forth  (1) 
entire   money   and   other   considerations   therefor,    (2)    the   time 


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at  which  insurance  takes  effect  and  terminates,  (3)  if  it 
purports  to  insure  more  than  one  person;  (4)  unless  every 
printed  portion  and  all  endorsements  and  attached  papers  shall 
be  plainly  printed  in  type  not  smaller  than  10-point;  (5) 
unless  a  brief  description  thereof  be  printed  on  first  page  and 
on  filing  back  in  type  not  smaller  than  14-point;  (6)  unless 
exceptions  of  policy  be  printed  as  prominently  as  benefits; 
portion  of  policy  reducing  indemnity  by  reason  of  circum- 
stances under  which  loss  incurred  shall  be  printed  in  bold-face 
type  and  with  greater  prominence  than  any  other  part  of 
policy. 

Two  forms  of  policy  provided:  one  (A)  that  does  not  provide 
for  reduction  of  indemnity  for  change  of  occupation,  and  the 
other  (B)  which  does;  if  form  B  used  and  policy  provides 
indemnity  against  loss  from  sickness,  words  "or  contracts 
sickness"  shall  be  inserted.  Policies  shall  contain  standard 
provisions  relative  to  changes  in  contract,  to  reinstatement 
of  policy  after  lapse;  to  time  of  notice  of  claim;  to  sufficiency 
of  notice  of  claim;  to  furnishing  forms  for  convenience  of 
insured  in  submitting  proof  of  loss;  to  filing  proof  of  loss; 
to  examination  of  person  of  insured  and  to  autopsy;  to  time 
within  which  payments  other  than  those  for  loss  of  time  on 
account  of  disability  shall  be  made;  to  periodical  payments 
of  indemnity  for  loss  of  time  on  account  of  disability,  to 
indemnity  payments;  for  cancellation  of  policy  at  instance  of 
insured;  to  rights  of  beneficiary  under  policy;  limiting  time 
within  which  suit  may  be  brought  on  policy;  relative  to  time 
limitations  of  policy.  Policies  shall  contain  optional  standard 
provisions,  relative  to  cancellation  at  instance  of  insurer;  to 
reduction  of  amount  of  indemnity;  to  deduction  of  premium 
upon  settlement  of  claim;  to  other  insurance  by  same  insurer; 
to  age  limits  of  policy. 

No  policy  shall  be  issued  if  it  contains  any  provision  con- 
tradictory of  any  of  the  "standard  provisions"  or  "optional 
standard  '  provisions";  or  any  provision  purporting  to  mak& 
any  portion  of  charter,  constitution  or  by-law  of  insurer  part 
thereof  unless  such  provisions  are  set  forth  in  full  in  policy; 
this  prohibition  not  to  apply  to  any  statement  of  rates  or 
classification    of    risks    filed   with    superintendent    of   insurance. 

Falsity  of  statement  in  application  for  policy  shall  not  bar 
right  of  recovery,  unless  such  false  statement  was  made  with 
intent  to  deceive;  acknowledgment  by  insurer  of  receipt  of 
notice,  furnishing  of  forms  for  filing  proofs  of  loss,  or  accept- 
ance of  such  proofs,  or  investigation  of  any  claim  shall  not 
operate  as  waiver  of  rights  of  insurer  in  defense  of  such 
claim. 

No  alteration  of  any  written  application  for  insurance  shall 
be  made  without  consent  of  applicant,  and  making  such  altera- 
tion  declared   misdemeanor. 


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Policy  issued  in  violation  of  this  section  shall  be  held  valid, 
but  shall  be  construed  as  herein  provided,  and  when  any  pro- 
vision therein  is  in  conflict  with  this  section  rights  of  parties 
shall  be  governed  hereby. 

Policies  against  accidental  bodily  injury  or  sickness  issued 
by  insurer  not  organized  under  laws  of  this  State  may  con- 
tain, when  issued  in  this  State,  any  provision  which  law  of 
State  of  organization  prescribes  for  insertion  therein;  and 
policies  issued  in  another  State  by  companies  organized  under 
laws  of  this  State,  shall  contain  any  provision  laws  of  State 
in   which  issued. 

This  section  shall  not  apply  to  or  affect  any  policy  of  lia- 
bility or  workman's  compensation  insurance  or  any  general 
blanket  policy  of  insurance  issued  to  any  municipal  corpora- 
tion or  to  any  corporation,  copartnership,  association  or  in- 
dividual employer,  police  or  fire  department,  underwriters' 
corps,  salvage  bureau,  or  like  associations,  where  officers, 
members  or  employees  or  classes  or  departments  thereof  are 
insured  for  individual  benefit  against  specified  accidental  bod- 
ily injuries  or  sickness  while  exposed  to  hazards  of  occupation 
or  otherwise,  in  consideration  of  premium;  nor  shall  it  apply 
to  contracts  supplemental  to  contracts  of  life  or  endowment 
to  contracts  of  life  or  endowment  insurance  containing  no1 
provisions  except  such  as  operate  to  safeguard  such  insurance 
against  lapse  or  to  provide  a  special  surrender  value  in  event 
insured  shall  be  totally  and  permanently  disabled  by  reason 
of  accidental  bodily  injury  or  sickness;  no  such  supplemental 
contract  shall  be  issued  to  any  person  in  this  State  unless  the 
•form  has  been  approved  by  Superintendent  of  Insurance. 

Fraternal  benefit  societies  not  affected,  clause  5,  subdivision 
d  and  clauses  2,  3,  8  and  12,  subdivision  c  may  be  omitted 
from    railroad    ticket    policies. 

Violation  punishable  by  fine  of  not  more  than  $500  for  each 
offense,    and   Insurance   Commissioner   may   revoke   license. 

A.   B.   1230.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.   569.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  570.  Benedict.  Prohibiting  insurance  companies  and 
their  agents  from  giving,  and  insured  persons  from  receiving, 
a  rebate  of  any  portion  of  an  insurance  premium,  and  pro- 
viding  a   penalty   for  violations   of   the   provisions   hereof. 

A.    B.    1173.     Anderson.      Identical  with   S.    B.    570.      Benedict. 

A.  B.  867.  Prendergast.  Providing  for  standard  policy  con- 
ditions for  accident  and  health  insurance;  requiring  the  Insur- 
ance Commissioner  to  approve  all  forms  of  policy  contracts 
and   applications. 

S.  B.  29.  Kehoe.  Relating  to  fire  insurance  business,  pro- 
viding for  the  filing  of  rating  schedules,  the  establishment  of 
public  rating  bureaus,  defining  their  powers  and  method  of 
conductng  their  business,  providing  for  the  supervision  of  the 


226  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Insurance  Commissioner  over  such  rating  bureaus  and  rating 
schedules,  prohibiting  deviation  from  such  rating  schedules 
and  providing  a  penalty   therefor. 

Provides  that  fire  insurance  companies  shall,  before  De- 
cember 31,  1915,  file  with  Insurance  Commissioner  a  copy  of 
its  rating  schedule;  and  all  new  companies  shall  do  the  same 
before  receiving  a  license.  Further  requirements  of  such 
schedules  are  specified.  An  amended  schedule  may  be  filed 
at  any  time,  but  it  cannot  take  effect  until  30  days  after 
being  filed.  Any  company  adopting  "the  advisory  rates"  need 
not  file  such  schedule,  but  must  file  a  statement  to  that  effect. 

Provides  for  rating  bureaus,  and  for  securing  uniformity 
in  rating  schedules.  Insurance  Commissioner  may  refuse  a 
rating  schedule.  Any  rate  is  subject  to  review  before  the 
Insurance  Commissioner.  Any  violating  of  this  Act  is  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  may  cause  the  loss  of  license  for  a  year. 
(S.    B.   896.     Kehoe.      "Pending   Legislation,"    1913,    p.    366.) 

S.  B.  761.  Breed.  To  provide  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  by  fire  insurance  companies  of  guaranty  surplus 
funds  and  special  reserve   funds  and   thereby  limiting  liability. 

A.  B.  979.  Prendergast  (by  request).  Relating  to  fire  in- 
surance business,  prohibiting  compacts  or  combinations  for  the 
purpose  of  discriminating  against  any  fire  insurance  company 
or  its  representatives  by  reason  of  its  or  their  affiliation  or 
non-affiliation  with  any  board  or  association  of  fire  insurance 
companies  or  for  any  purpose  detrimental  to  the  public  good, 
and  providing  for  a  penalty  for  any  violation  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  786.  Rigdon.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  18,  1909,  to  establish  a  standard  form  of  fire 
insurance  policy  and  to  prevent  variations  therefrom,  except- 
ing   under    certain    stated    conditions   and    restrictions. 

A.  B.  537.  Prendergast.  Concerning  life  insurance  com- 
panies, associations  and  societies  and  their  agents  and  other 
persons,  firms  and  corporations,  prohibiting  rebating,  mis- 
representation and  twisting,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  a 
violation    thereof. 

S.  B.  571.  Benedict.  To  prohibit  insurance  companies,  asso- 
ciations, or  societies  and  their  agents  from  misrepresenting 
the  terms   of  any  policy  of   insurance. 

Violation  declared  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  of  not 
more  than  $100  or  imprisonment  not  more  than  6  months;  and 
the  Insurance  Commissioner  is  also  empowered  to  revoke  or 
suspend   the   license   of   the   offending   party. 

A.  B.  1175.     Anderson.     Identical  with  S.    B.   571.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  1303.  Hawson  (by  request).  Amending  Sections  1,  2, 
3,  5,  6,  7,  8  and  10  of  an  Act  approved  April  15,  1909,  to  pro- 
vide for  the  organization  and  management  of  county  fire  in- 
surance companies. 


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A.  B.  1361.  Schmitt.  To  provide  for  the  organization  ana 
management  of  mutual  casualty  insurance  corporations. 

S.  B.  1157.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6, 
7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13  and  14  of  an  Act  approved  May  1,  1911, 
providing  for  the  organization  and  management  of  mutual 
fire  insurance  corporations  and  associations  and  defining  the 
same,  and  regulating  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  mutual 
fire  insurance  in  the  State  of  California,  and  repealing  an  Act 
approved  March  19,  1907,  providing  for  the  organization  and 
management    of   mutual   fire   insurance    companies. 

A.  B.  976.  Prendergast.  Amending  an  Act  approved  May  1, 
1911,  providing  for  the  organization  and  management  of  mutual 
fire  insurance  corporations  and  associations  and  defining  the 
same,  and  regulating  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  mutual 
fire  insurance  in  the  State  of  California. 

A.  B.  1024.  Godsil.  Repealing  Section  7  of  an  Act  approved 
May  26,  1913,  providing  for  the  organization  and  management 
of  mutual  workmen's  compensation  insurance  companies  and 
defining  the  same  and  regulating  the  transaction  of  the  busi- 
ness of  mutual  workmen's  compensation  insurance  in  the 
State  of  California. 

INVESTMENT    COMPANIES,     REGULATION    OF. 

S.  B.  669.  Hans.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act  approved 
May  28,  1913,  to  define  investment  companies,  investment  brok- 
ers and  agents;  to  provide  for  the  regulation,  supervision  and 
licensing  thereof;  to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof; 
to  create  the  office  of  Commissioner  of  Corporations,  and  mak- 
ing an   appropriation   therefor. 

A.  B.  1245.  McKnight  (by  request).  Providing  for  the  pro- 
tection of  stockholders,  investors  and  creditors  by  requiring 
certain  copartnerships,  joint  stock  companies  and  corporations 
to  cause  to  be  issued  certified  balance  sheets  and  statements 
of  income,  profit  and  loss,  and  providing  for  adequate  penalties 
for  the  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

"Financial  Certificate"  Act.  Requires  every  copartnership, 
joint  stock  company,  or  corporation  doing  business  in  this 
State,  not  under  the  supervision  and  jurisdiction  of  the  Super- 
intendent of  Banks,  Railroad  Commission,  Insurance  Commis- 
sioner, and  Building  and  Loan  Commissioner,  having  a  sub- 
scribed capital  stock  or  investment  of  $30,000  and  more  than 
fifteen  stockholders,  members  or  copartners,  except  concerns 
subject  to  this  law  holding  the  entire  capital  stock,  except 
directors  qualifying  shares,  of  any  copartnership,  joint  stock 
company  or  corporation,  shall  furnish  at  least  annually  a  bal- 
ance sheet,  duly  certified  by  some  auditor  or  firm  of  auditors, 
showing  the  financial  condition  of  the  enterprise  as  at  the 
close  of   either   the   fiscal   or   the  calendar  year,    together  with 


228  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

a  detailed  profit  and  loss  statement  for  the  year.  Copies  of 
this  statement  shall  be  mailed  by  the  auditor  within  sixty-five 
days   to   each   shareholder,   at  his  last  known   address. 

Every  copartnership,  joint  stock  company  or  corporation  offer- 
ing or  causing  to  be  offered  for  sale  in  this  State  its  stocks, 
bonds  or  other  evidence  of  proprietorship  or  debt,  or  the  stock, 
bonds  or  other  evidence  of  proprietorship  or  debt  of  any  similar 
concern,  shall  have  every  financial  statement  issued  in  con- 
nection  therewith   certified   by   an   auditor   or  firm   of   auditors. 

Every  such  concern  having  an  indebtedness  of  more  than 
lj&£  per  cent  of  its  subscribed  capital  stock  or  investment, 
shall,  at  the  joint  written  request  of  the  creditors  of  any  single 
creditor  to  the  extent  of  more  than  12^  per  cent  of  its  stock 
or  investment,  issue  to  them  a  certified  balance  sheet. 

Failure  to  make  or  to  have  such  certification  made  is  de- 
clared a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  of  not  more  than 
$1000  nor  less  than  $500,  and  any  auditor  certifying  to  an 
incorrect  or  misleading  statement,  unlesss  deprived  of  neces- 
sary information,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable 
by  fine  not  exceeding  $5000  nor  less  than  $500,  and  every 
auditor  or  firm  of  auditors  selected  for  the  preparation  of 
such  statement  must  have  his  responsibility  secured  by  a  bond 
of  5  per  cent  of  the  subscribed  capital  stock  or  investment, 
but  in  no  event  shall  the  bond  exceed  $100,000.  No  auditor  or 
firm  of  auditors  that  is  an  employee,  stockholder,  member  or" 
copartner  of  the  enterprise  shall  be  eligible  to  prepare  such  a 
statement.  (A.  B.  275.  Farwell.  "Pending  Legislation  1913", 
p.   280.) 

S.  B.  1190.     Butler.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1245.     McKnight. 

S.  B.  843.  Anderson.  To  require  corporations  doing  busi- 
ness in  the  State  of  California  to  pay  dividends,  and  author^ 
izing  any  stockholder  to  institute  proceedings  in  a  competent 
court  against  corporations  for  failure  to  pay  dividends,  and 
empowering  said  court  to  issue  orders  for  the  dissolution  of 
corporations. 

Requires  all  corporations  to  pay  dividend  during  the  third 
year  of  existence  and  thereafter  at  least  one  dividend  an- 
nually of  not  less  than  6  per  cent  of  the  actual  cost  of  the 
stock  owned  by  the  stockholders,  unless  those  holding  at 
least  75  per  cent  of  the  stock  vote  a  dividend  be  not  paid. 
One  or  more  stockholders  may  bring  an  action  in  the  Superior 
Court  setting  forth  failure  to  pay  dividends,  that  75  per  cent 
of  the  stockholders  have  not  voted  to  pass  the  dividend  and 
praying  for  the  dissolution  of  the  corporation;  a  citation 
shall  thereupon  issue  if  court  is  satisfied  facts  alleged  are 
true  to  the  directors  to  show  cause  why  corporation  should 
not    be    dissolved,    and    if    it    appears    that    corporation    has 


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neither   paid    a    dividend    nor    been    excused    from    so    doing    it 
shall   be   dissolved. 

A.  B.  944.  Harris.  Prohibiting  corporations  engaged  in 
certain  kinds  of  business  from  engaging  in  certain  other  kinds 
of  business  and  prohibiting  certain  investments  in  other  cor- 
porations and  prohibiting  directors  of  certain  corporations 
from  being  directors  of  or  interested  in  certain  other  corpo- 
rations, and  providing  penalty  for  violation  thereof. 

IRRIGATION. 

A.  B.  75.  Wills.  Providing  for  the  government  of  irrigation 
districts  having  an  area  of  more  than  500,000  acres  and  to 
enable  such  irrigation  districts  to  construct  levees  and  to 
protect  the  lands  within  such  districts  from  damage  resulting 
from  floods  and  the  overflow  of  rivers  and  for  that  purpose 
to  provide  additional  powers  for  boards  of  directors  within 
such  irrigation  districts. 

This  measure  affects  Imperial  county  particularly,  and  is  to 
provide  protection  from  inundation  of  that  section  from  the 
Colorado  river,  there  being  no  other  public  body  authorized 
to  make  the  necessary  expenditures. 

S.  B.  176.  Benedict.  Amending  the  title  of  an  Act,  approved 
June  13,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  formation,  management  and 
dissolution  of  county  irrigation  districts;  for  supplying  the  in- 
habitants thereof  with  water;  for  levying  and  collecting  taxes 
on  property  in  such  districts;  and  for  the  issuance  of  county 
irrigation  district  bonds  and  the  payment  thereof;  and  by 
amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  5,  6,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12.  13  and  14 
thereof,  and  by  adding  a  new  section  thereto,  to  be  known  as 
Section  17,  relating  to  change  of  name  of  said  districts,  and 
to  bond  issues  thereof. 

A.  B.  1138.  Dennett.  To  provide  for  the  consolidation  of 
irrigation  districts  organized  and  existing  under  the  provisions 
of  an  Act,  approved  March  31,  1897,  to  provide  for  the  organi- 
zation and  government  of  irrigation  districts,  and  to  provide 
for  the  acquisition  or  construction  thereby  of  works  for  the 
irrigation  of  the  lands  embraced  within  such  districts,  and, 
also,  to  provide  for  the  distribution  of  water  for  irrigation  pur- 
poses, and  to  provide  for  the  government  of  such  consolidated 
districts, 

S.  B.  1168.  Irwin.  To  provide  for  the  consolidation  of  irri- 
gation, reclamation,  drainage,  protective  and  flood  water  dis- 
tricts and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  construction  by 
such  consolidated  district  of  works  for  the  conservation  of 
water  and  the  drainage  of  the  lands  thereof;  and  to  provide 
for  the  government  of  such  districts. 

A.  B.  1188.  Ellis.  Creating  a  bureau  of  irrigation  districts 
in    the    State    Water    Commission    to    supervise,    regulate    and 


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control  the  affairs  of  irrigation  districts  which  have  been  or 
may  hereafter  be  organized  under  the  laws  of  this  State; 
providing  for  the  appointment  of  a  director  for  said  bureau 
of  irrigation  districts,  defining  his  duties  and  fixing  his  salary; 
and,  also,  for  the  general  government  of  said  bureau  of  irri- 
gation  districts. 

A.  B.  1383.  Dennett.  To  provide  for  the  collection  and 
enforcement  of  the  payment  of  assessments  including  delin- 
quent assessments  in  irrigation  districts,  by  county  officers 
and  for  the  sale  and  redemption  from  sale  of  property  sold 
for  the  non-payment  of.  such  assessments  and  for  the  per- 
formance by  county  officers  of  the  duties  of  officers  of  such 
irrigation  districts  respecting  such  matters,  and  to  provide  for 
the  compensation  to  be  paid  to  counties  by  such  irrigation 
districts  for  the  services  performed  by  such  county  officers  for 
such   irrigation   districts   under  the   provisions   of   this   Act. 

A.   B.   1031.     Sisson.     To  create  a  commission   (   to  be  known 

as   )    to   co-operate   with   the   Federal   government  and 

other  interests  in  building  and  operating  storage  reservoirs 
and  irrigation  projects;  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  the 
officers  and  employes  thereof,  defining  its  powers  and  pre- 
scribing the  duties  of  said  commission,  its  officers  and  em- 
ployes, and  to  provide  the  compensation  of  such  officers  and 
employes.      (Introduced  by  title  only.) 

A.  B.  368.  Amending  Sections  1,  28,  57  and  61  of  an  Act  to 
provide  for  the  organization  and  government  of  irrigation  dis- 
tricts, and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  construction  there- 
by of  works  for  the  irrigation  of  lands  embraced  within  such 
districts,  and  also,  to  provide  for  the  distribution  of  water  for 
irrigation  purposes,  and  adding  new  sections  to  be  known  as 
Sections  41a  and  61a  thereto. 

S.  B.  79.  King.  Amending  Section  39  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  31,  1897,  to  provide  for  the  organization  and 
government  of  irrigation  districts,  and  to  provide  for  the 
acquisition  or  construction  thereby  of  works  for  the  irriga- 
tion of  lands  embraced  within  such  districts,  and,  also,  to 
provide  for  the  distribution  of  water  for  irrigation  pur- 
poses,   relating   to    the    levying   and    collection    of    assessments. 

A.  B    1004.     Avey.     Identical  with  S.  B.  79.  King. 

A.  B.  1382.  Dennett.  Adding  Section  41a  (new)  to  an  Act 
to  provide  for  the  organization  and  government  of  irrigation 
districts,  and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  construction 
thereby  of  works  for  the  irrigation  of  the  lands  embraced 
within  such  irrigation  district,  and  also  to  provide  for  the 
distribution  of  the  water  for  irrigation  purposes;  authorizing 
boards  of  drectors  to  provide  for  the  collection  of  assessments 
by  the  proper  county  officers. 

A.    B.    1089.      Ellis.      Adding    Section    50y2    (new)    to    an    Act 


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approved  March  31,  1897,  to  provide  for  the  organization  and 
government  of  irrigation  districts,  and  to  provide  for  the 
acquisition  or  construction  thereby  of  works  for  the  irri- 
gation of  the  lands  embraced  within  such  districts;  and 
also  to  provide  for  the  distribution  of  water  for  irriga- 
tion purposes,  providing  for  the  acquisition  by  the  State  of 
property  sold  for  delinquent  assessments  in  an  irrigation  dis- 
trict; and  providing  for  the  payment  of  assessments  thereon; 
and  providing  for  the  management  and  disposition  of  such 
property. 

A.  B.  340.  Wills.  Adding  Sections  61a  and  61b  (new)  to  an 
Act  approved  March  31,  1897,  to  provide  for  the  organization 
and  government  of  irrigation  districts  and  to  provide  for  the 
acquisition  or  construction  thereby  of  works  for  the  irrigation 
of  the  lands  embraced  within  such  districts,  and  also  to  pro- 
vide for  the  distribution  of  water  for  irrigation  purposes,  re- 
lating to  the  acquiring  of  irrigation  systems  and  works  by  the 
exchange   of  bonds   therefor  and   the  validation   of  such   bonds. 

A.  B.  424.  Dennett.  Repealing  Section  64  of  an  Act  approved 
March  31,  1897,  to  provide  for  the  organization  and  government 
of  irrigation  districts,  and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or 
construction  thereby  of  works  for  the  irrigation  of  the  lands 
embraced  within  such  districts,  and,  also,  to  provide  for  the 
distribution  of  water  for  irrigation  purposes. 

A.  B.  307.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  78  of  an  Act  to 
provide  for  the  organization  and  government  of  irrigation  dis- 
tricts, and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  construction  thereby 
of  works  for  the  irrigation  of  the  lands  embraced  within  such 
districts,  and,  also,  to  provide  for  the  distribution  of  water  for 
irrigation  purposes. 

A.  B.  343.  Wills.  Authorizing  the  Imperial  Irrigation  Dis- 
trict to  acquire  the  irrigation  system  and  works  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Development  Company  and  its  subsidiary  company  and 
successors  in  California  and  Mexico  by  condemnation  or  pur- 
chase, and,  in  case  of  purchase,  to  exchange  bonds  of  said 
district  for  such  irrigation  system  and  works  or  for  property 
interests  therein. 

A.  B.  266.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  relating 
to  bonds  of  irrigation  districts,  providing  under  what  circum- 
stances such  bonds  shall  be  legal  investments  for  funds  of 
banks,  insurance  companies  and  trust  companies,  trust  funds, 
State  school  funds  and  any  money  or  funds  which  may  be  now 
or  hereafter  invested  in  bonds  of  cities,  cities  and  counties, 
counties,  school  districts  or  municipalities,  and  providing  under 
what  circumstances  the  use  of  bonds  of  irrigation  districts  as 
security  for  the  performance  of  any  Act  may  be  authorized. 

S.  B.  303.  Shearer.  Recognizing  and  declaring  valid  all  pro- 
ceedings   in    Anderson-Cottonwood    Irrigation    District. 


-  232  TENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.  B.  338.     McCray.     Identical  with  S.  B.  303.     Shearer. 

S.  B.  309.  Luce.  Recognizing  and  declaring  valid  all  pro- 
ceedings in  La  Mesa,  Lemon  Grove  and  Spring  Valley  Irriga- 
tion   District. 

A.  B.   305.     Judson.     Identical  with  S.   B.   309.     Luce. 

S.  B.  461.  Benedict.  To  validate  the  formation  of  certain 
districts  formed  under  the  provisions  of  an  Act  approved  June 
13,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  formation,  management  and  disso- 
lution of  county  irrigation  districts;  for  supplying  the  inhabi- 
tants thereof  with  water;  for  levying  and  collecting  taxes  on 
property  in  such  districts;  and  for  the  issuance  of  county 
irrigation  district  bonds  and  the  payment  thereof,  and  to  vali- 
date the  issuance  and  sale  of  certain  bonds  therefor.      ' 

S.  B.  575.  Benedict.  To  validate  the  formation  of  certain 
districts  formed  under  the  provisions  of  an  Act,  approved  June 
13,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  formation,  management  and  dis- 
solution of  county  irrigation  districts;  for  supplying  the  in- 
habitants thereof  with  water;  for  levying  and  collecting  taxes 
on  property  in  such  districts;  and  for  the  issuance  of  county 
irrigation  district  bonds  and  the  payment  thereof,  and  to 
validate  the   issuance   and   sale   of   certain  bonds   thereof. 

S.  B.  753.  Maddux.  To  recognize  and  declare  valid  all  pro- 
ceedings in  Oakdale  Irrigation  District. 

A.  B.  1225.  Fish.  An  Act  to  validate  the  formation  of  cer- 
tain districts  formed  under  the  provisions  of  an  Act  entitled 
"An  Act  to  provide  for  the  formation,  management  and  dis- 
solution of  county  irrigation  districts;  for  supplying  the  in- 
habitants thereof  with  water;   etc. 

S.  B.  1063.  Chandler.  Relating  to  bonds  of  drainage  dis- 
tricts, providing  under  what  circumstances  such  bonds  shall  be* 
legal  investments  for  funds  of  banks,  insurance  companies  and 
trust  companies,  trust  funds,  State  school  funds  and  any  money 
or"  funds  which  may  now  or  hereafter  be  invested  in  bonds 
of  cities,  cities  and  counties,  counties,  school  districts  or 
municipalities,  and  providing  under  what  circumstances  the 
use  of  bonds  of  irrigation  districts  as  security  for  the  per- 
formance of  any  Act  may  be  authorized. 

JUVENILE     COURT     LAW. 

S.  B.  347.  Thompson.  An  Act  to  be  known  as  the  Juvenile 
Court  Law,  and  concerning  persons  under  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  years;  and  in  certain  cases  providing  for  their  care, 
custody  and  maintenance;  providing  for  the  probationary  treat- 
ment of  such  persons,  and  for  the  commitment  of  such  per- 
sons to  the  Whittier  State  School  and  the  Preston  School  of 
Industry,  California  School  for  Girls,  and  other  institutions; 
establishing  probation  officers  and  a  probation  committee  to 
deal   with   such   persons   and   fixing  the   salary   thereof;    provid- 


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ing  for  the  establishment  of  detention  homes  for  such  persons; 
fixing  the  method  of  procedure  and  treatment  or  commitment 
where  crimes  have  been  committed  by  such  persons;  provid- 
ing for  the  punishment  of  those  guilty  of  offenses  with  refer- 
ence to  such  persons,  and  defining  such  crime;  and  repealing 
the  Juvenile  Court  Law  approved  March  8,  1909,  as  amended 
by  an  Act  approved  April  5,  1911,  and  as  amended  by  an  Act 
approved  June  16,  1913,  and  all  amendments  thereof  and  all 
Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

A.  B.  875.  McDonald,  J.  J.  Identical  with  S.  B.  347.  Thomp- 
son. 

A.  B.  117.  Hawson.  Adding  Section  5%  (new)  to  an  Act 
concerning  dependent  and  delinquent  minor  children,  provid- 
ing for  their  care,  custody  and  maintenance  until  twenty-one 
years  of  age;  providing  for  their  commitment  to  the  Whittier 
State  School  and  the  Preston  State  School  of  Industry,  and 
the  manner  of  such  commitment  and  release  therefrom,  estab- 
lishing a  probation  committee  and  probation  officer  to  deal 
with  such  children,  and  fixing  the  salaries  of  probation  offi- 
cers; providing  for  detention  homes  for  said  children;  provid- 
ing for  the  punishment  of  persons  responsible  for  or  con- 
tributing to  the  dependency  or  delinquency  of  children  and 
giving  to  the  Superior  Court  jurisdiction  of  such  offenses,  and 
repealing   inconsistent  Acts. 

Provides  that  whenever  any  minor  child  under  14  years  of 
age  shall  be  found  by  court  to  be  dependent  or  delinquent, 
such  child  shall  be  subject  to  adoption  by  any  adult  person. 
No  consent  of  parent  or  guardian  of  child  shall  be  necessary. 
If  court  is  satisfied  interests  of  child  will  be  promoted  by 
adoption  it  shall  make  necessary  order.  From  date  of  adop- 
tion natural  parents  shall  be  relieved  of  all  parental  duties 
toward   child  and   forfeit  all  parental  rights   over  it. 

A.  B.  1305.  Shartel.  To  amend  Section  14  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  8,  1909,  and  amended  April  5,  1911,  concerning 
neglected,  dependent  and  delinquent  persons,  providing  for 
their  care,  custody  and  maintenance  until  twenty-one  years  of 
age;  providing  for  their  commitment  to  the  Whittier  State 
School  and  the  Preston  School  of  Industry,  etc.,  relating  to 
probation    officers. 

S.  B.  104.  Duncan.  Amending  Sections  14h  and  14n  of  an 
Act  approved  June  16,  1913,  in  effect  August  10,  1913,  to  amend 
the  title  of  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  concerning  dependent 
and  delinquent  minor  children,  providing  for  their  care,  cus- 
tody and  maintenance  until  twenty-one  years  of  age;  provide 
ing  for  their  commitment  to  the  Whittier  State  School  anrt 
the  Preston  State  School  of  Industry,  and  the  manner  of  such 
commitment    and    release    therefrom,    establishing    a    probation 


234  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

committee  and  probation  officers  to  deal  with  such  children, 
and  fixing  the  salaries  of  probation  officers;  providing  for 
detenton  homes  for  said  children;  providing  for  the  punish- 
ment of  persons  responsible  for,  or  contributing  to,  the  de- 
pendency or  delinquency  of  children;  and  giving  to  the  Su- 
perior Court  jurisdiction  of  such  offenses,  and  repealing  in- 
consistent Acts,"  approved  March  8,  1909,  and  as  amended  by 
an  Act  approved  April  5,  1911,  relative  to  the  salaries  of  pro- 
bation officers   in   counties  of  the   nineteenth  class. 

A.  B.  386.  Manning.  Amending  Sections  14k  and  14n  of  an 
Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  amend  the  title  and  an  Act  entitled 
'An  Act  concerning  dependent  and  delinquent  minor  children, 
providing  for  their  care,  custody  and  maintenance  until  21  years 
of  age;  providing  for  their  commitment  to  the  Whittier  State 
School  and  the  Preston  State  School  of  Industry,  and  the 
manner  of  such  commitment  and  release  therefrom,  establish- 
ing a  probation  committee  and  probation  officers  to  deal  with 
such  children,  and  fixing  the  salaries  of  probation  officers;  pro- 
viding for  detention  homes  for  said  children;  providing  for  the 
punishment  of  persons  responsible  for,  or  contributing  to,  the 
dependency  or  delinquency  of  children;  and  giving  to  the 
Superior  Court  jurisdiction  of  such  offenses,  and  repealing  in- 
consistent Acts,'  approved  March  8,  1909,  amended  April  5, 
1911,"  amended  June  16,  1913,  with  reference  to  number  and 
compensation  of  probation   officers   in   certain   counties. 

S.  B.  153.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  14m  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  8,  1909,  as  amended  April  5,  11,  as  amended 
June  16,  1913,  concerning  neglected,  dependent  and  delinquent 
persons,  providing  for  their  care,  custody  and  maintenance 
until  twenty-one  years  of  age;  providing  for  their  commitment 
to  the  Whittier  State  School  and  the  Preston  School  of  In- 
dustry, and  the  manner  of  such  commitment  and  release  there- 
from; establishing  a  probation  committee  and  probation  officers 
to  deal  with  such  persons;  fixing  the  salaries  of  probation 
officers;  providing  for  detention  homes  for  said  persons;  pro- 
viding for  the  punishment,  of  those  responsible  for,  or  con- 
tributing to,  the  neglect,  dependency  or  delinquency  of  said 
persons;  and  giving  to  the  superior  court  jurisdiction  of  such 
offenses    and    repealing    inconsistent    acts. 

Provides   one  probation  officer  at   $100   a  month. 

A.  B.   1048.     Quinn.     Identical  with  S.  B.   153.     Kehoe. 

A.  B.  264.  Bruck.  Amending  Sections  14t  and  14u  of  the 
"Juvenile  Court  Law",  approved  June  16,  1913,  relating  to 
probation  officers  in  counties  of  the  44th,  48th,  50th,  52nd  and 
55th   classes   and   their  salaries. 

S.   B.    949.     Purkitt.     Identical   with  A.    B.   264.      Bruck. 

A.  B.  898.  Rutherford.  Amending  Section  14p  of  ah  Act, 
approved  March  8,  1909,  as  amended  April  5,  1911,  as  amended 


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June  16,  1013,  entitled  "An  Act  concerning  neglected,  dependent 
and  delinquent  persons,  providing  for  their  care,  custody  and 
maintenance  until  twenty-one  years  of  age;  providing  for  their 
commitment  to  the  Whittier  State  School  and  the  Preston 
School  of  Industry,  and  the  manner  of  such  commitment  and 
release  therefrom;  establishing  a  probation  committee  and  pro- 
bation officers  to  deal  with  such  persons;  fixing  the  salaries 
of  probation  officers;  providing  for  detention  homes  for  said 
persons;  providing  for  the  punishment  of  those  responsible 
for,  or  contributing  to,  the  neglect,  dependency,  or  delinquency 
of  said  person  and  giving  to  the  Superior  Court  jurisdiction 
of  such  offenses,  and  repealing  inconsistent  Acts",  relating  to 
salary  of  probation  officers  in  counties  of  the  thirty-fourth 
class. 

S.  B.  590.  Campbell.  Fixing  the  number  of  probation  officers 
and  assistant  probation  officers  in  all  the.  counties  of  the 
State  of  California,  fixing  the  salaries  of  such  officers  and 
providing  for  the  payment  thereof,  authorizing  the.  payment 
of  incidental  expenses  incurred  by  probation  officers,  assistant 
probation  officers,  deputy  probation  officers  and  members  of 
the   probation   committee   in  the  discharge   of   their   duties. 

A  B.    687.     Bartlett.     Identical  with   S.   B.    590.      Campbell. 

S.  B.  1070.  Campbell.  Concerning  neglected,  dependent  and 
delinquent  persons,  providing  for  their  care,  custody  and 
maintenance  until  21  years  of  age;  providing  for  their  com- 
mitment to  the  Whittier  State  School,  the  Preston  School  of 
Industry  and  the  California  School  for  Girls,  and  the  manner 
of  such  commitment;  establishing  a  probation  committee  and 
probation  officers  to  deal  with  such  persons;  providing  for 
detention  homes  for  such  persons;  providing  for  the  punish- 
ment of  persons  responsible  for,  or  contributing  to,  the  de- 
pendency or  delinquency  of  such  persons  and  giving  the  Supe- 
rior Court  jurisdiction  of  such  offenses,  and  providing  for  ap- 
peal from  any  order  or  judgment  of  such  Superior  Court  and 
repealing  inconsistent  Acts. 

A.    B.    1322.     Bartlett.      Identical   with   S.    B.    1070.      Campbell. 

LABOR. 

(See  Capital  and  Labor;  Wages  and  Hours;  Mines  and  Mining; 
Employment  Bureau,  State;  Employment  Agencies;  Work- 
men's  Compensation   Act.) 


LEGAL    AID. 

(See  Public  Defender.) 

S.  B.  17.  Lyon.  Creating  small  debtors'  courts  in  counties 
of  the  first,  second  and  third  classes,  and  denning  their 
powers,   jurisdiction   and   procedure. 

Provides   for   appointment   by   the   Governor   of   one   judge   in 


£36  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

each  county  designated,  and  for  the  appointment  by  the  court 
of  a  Public  Defender  to  hold  office  for  four  years,  who  shall 
prosecute  actions  for  collection  of  wages  or  other  demands 
of  persons  not  able  to  employ  counsel,  where  sum  involved, 
exclusive  of  interest,  does  not  exceed  $100  and  where  claim 
is  legally  valid  and  enforceable;  he  shall  also  defend  such 
persons  in  civil  litigation  in  which  they  are  being  persecuted 
or  harassed.  The  County  Clerk  and  Sheriff  are  declared 
ex-officio  officers  of  the  court  with  power  to  appoint  deputies 
to  keep  docket  and  serve  process.  Salaries  are  fixed  at: 
judge,  $3600;  public  defender,  $2400,  deputy  clerk,  $1500;  deputy 
sheriff,  $1200  per  annum.  The  Board  of  Supervisors  shall 
provide   suitable   quarters. 

Jurisdiction  of  court  extends  to  limits  of  county,  but  mesne 
and  final  process  may  be  issued  to  and  served  in  any  part 
"  of  the  State;  court  shall  have  civil  jurisdiction  in  all  cases 
hot  cognizable  by  courts  of  record,  in  which  sum  involved 
does  hot  exceed  $100;  no  fees  are*  to  be  charged  except  upon 
appeal;  court  to  be  governed  by  provisions  of  law  regulating 
"Justices'  Court,  and  shall  have  power  to  make  rules;  if 
plaintiff  is  able  to  engage  own  attorney  his  case  not  cogniz- 
able by  poor  debtors'  court. 
A.  B.  685.  Lyon.  Identical  with  S.  B.  17.  Lyon. 
A.  B.  21.  Wishard.  Providing  a  method  of  procedure 
whereby  a  poor  person,  having  a  good  cause  of  action  or  a 
good  defense,  may  have  an  attorney  assigned  to  prosecute  his 
action  or  to  conduct  his  defense  and  relieving  him  from  the 
payment  of  fees  and  costs;  if  such  person  guilty  of  improper 
conduct  in  prosecution  or  defense  court  may  annul  order; 
order  does  not  authorize  petitioner  to  take  or  maintain  an 
appeal;  but  where  appeal  is  taken  by  adverse  party,  order  is 
applicable  in  favor  of  petitioner  as  respondent  in  the  appeal; 
costs,  where  awarded  to  person  prosecuting  as  poor  person, 
must  be  paid  to  his  attorney  when  collected  from  adverse  party 
and  distributed  among  counsel  assigned  to  him  as  court  directs. 
A.  B.  349.  Ream.  To  permit  a  poor  person  having  a  good 
cause  of  action  to  sue  without  payment  of  costs  and  have  an 
attorney  assigned   to  him. 

Provides  that  where  court  is  satisfied  plaintiff  is  poor  per- 
son and  unable  to  prosecute  action  and  pay  costs  and  ex- 
penses thereof,  court  may  permit  commencement  and  prose- 
cution thereof  as  poor  person,  and  have  all  necessary  process 
and  proceedings  without  fee,  tax  or  charge,  and  court  may 
assign  counsel  to  perform  services  without  fee  or  reward;  but 
if  judgment  is  entered  for  plaintiff,  costs  shall  be  recovered 
for  use  of  officers  of  court;  if  person  files  with  any  clerk  in 
vacation  affidavit  that  he  has  just  cause  of  action  on  which  he 
proposes   to   sue  and  is  unable   to  pay  costs,   clerk   shall  issue 


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summons  without  fee;  but  court  may  refuse  to  permit  further 
prosecution  of  suit  without  payment  of  costs. 

A.  B.  721.  Marron.  Creating  a  small  debts'  court  in  each 
county  of  the  State  and  defining  the  powers,  jurisdiction  and 
procedure    thereof. 

Similar  to  S.  B.  17,  Lyon,  except  that  it  applies  to  all 
counties  and  omits  reference  to  a  Public  Defender.  The 
amount    involved    shall    not    exceed    $25    in   any   case. 

LEGISLATIVE  COUNSEL  BUREAU. 

S.  B.  723.  Chandler.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved May  26,  1913,  establishing  a  legislative  counsel  bureau 
and  making  an  appropriation   therefor. 

Adds  provision  that  it  shall  also  be  duty  of  chief  of  legis- 
lative counsel  bureau  to  co-operate  with  the  proponents  of  any 
initiative  measure  in  the  preparation  of  such  law. 

A.  B.  1359.  Downing.  Amending  Sections  2  and  3  of  an 
Act  approved  May  26,  1913,  to  establish  a  legislative  counsel 
bureau  and  making  an  appropriation  therefor. 

LIBRARIES. 

S.  B.  20S.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  6  of  an  Act  approved 
February  25,  1911,  entitled,  An  Act  to  provide  for  the  estab- 
lishment and  maintenance  of  county  free  libraries  in  the  State 
of  California,  and  repealing  "An  Act  entitled  'An  Act  to 
provide  county  library  systems',  approved  April  12,  1909,  and 
all  Acts  and  parts' of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act",  relating 
to   qualification   of  county  librarian. 

S.  B.  209.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  9  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved February  25,  1911,  providing  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  county  free  libraries  in  the  State  of  California, 
and  repealing  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  county 
library  system",  approved  April  12,  1909,  and  all  Acts  and  parts 
of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  relating  to  county  librarians. 

LIENS     OF     MATERIAL     MEN,    MECHANICS,    ETC. 

A.  B.  354.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
March  27,  1907,  approved  May  1,  1911,  to  amend  an  Act  to 
secure  the  payment  of  the  claims  of  material  men,  mechanics, 
or  laborers,  employed  by  contractors  upon  State,  municipal  or 
other  public  work. 

Adds  a  provision  that  no  money  shall  be  paid  on  any  con- 
tract until  a  certified  copy  of  the  bond  has  been  filed  with  the 
county  treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  the  work  Is  to  be  per- 
formed; and  the  commissioners,  managers,  trustees,  common 
council  or  other  body  by  whom  such  contract  was  awarded 
shall  be  personally  responsible  for  all  debts  arising  thereunder 
in  event  that  the  bond  is  not  obtained  and  filed. 


238  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.  B.  1058.  Canepa  (by  request).  Amending-  Sections  1 
and  2  of  an  Act  approved  March  27,  1897,  to  secure  the  pay- 
ment of  the  claims  of  materialmen,  mechanics  or  laborers 
employed  by  contractors  upon  State,  municipal  or  other  public 
work,   and  by  adding  new  Sections  3  and  4  thereto. 

S.  B.  963.  Beban.  Amending  Sections  1,  2  and  3  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  27,  1897,  as  amended  May  1,  1911,  to  secure 
the  payment  of  the  claims  of  materialmen,  mechanics,  or 
laborers,  employed  by  contractors  upon  State,  municipal  or 
other  public  work,  and  to  add  a  new  section  thereto  to  be 
numbered  Section  4. 

LIGHTING     DISTRICTS. 

S.  B.  648.  Thompson.  Validating  and  confirming  the  organi- 
zation of  lighting  districts. 

LIQUORS,   SALE     OF. 

A  B.  874.  Bruck.  For  the  suppression  of  intemperance  and 
the  regulation  of  the  liquor  traffic  to  be  known  as  the  Liquor 
Code  of   California. 

This  measure  transfers  jurisdiction  over  saloons  from  cities 
and  counties  to  a  State  Excise  Commission.  It  was  intro- 
duced at  the  instance  of  the  California  Grape  Growers'  Asso- 
ciation. 

The  bill  creates  a  State  Excise  Commission  of  three  mem- 
bers, who  shall  receive  salaries  of  $4000  each.  Eight  district 
commissions   of   three   members   each   are   provided   for. 

The  power  to  grant  and  revoke  liquor  licenses  is  placed  ex- 
clusively in  the  hands  of  the  commission.  City  and  county 
authorities  will  have  no  right  to  revoke  any  permit.  The 
commission  may  grant  no  more  than  one  saloon  license  to 
every  500  population.  It  cannot  take  away  a  license  until 
after  a  saloon  man  has  been  convicted  in  the  Superior  Court 
of  improper  conduct   of  his   business. 

A  license  will  cost  $1000  a  year.  Ten  per  cent  of  the  amount 
collected  will  go  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  commission. 
Every  saloon  man  who  obtains  a  license  will  be  required  to 
contribute  $1000  to  a  fund,  out  of  which  the  commission  will 
compensate  saloon  men  who  do  not  get  permits.  The  prop- 
erty of  persons  refused  licenses  will  be  sold  at  auction  after 
appraisal  by  the  commission,  and  the  owners  will  be  paid  out 
of  the  compensation  fund  the  difference  between  the  proceeds 
of  the  sale  and  the  appraised  value  of  the  property  disposed  of. 

Barkeepers  will  be  required  to  wear  badges  issued  by  the 
commission  and  carrying  an  annual  tax  of  $3.  The  badges 
are  revocable  at  any   time. 

A.  B.  22.  Wright.  Declaring  all  buildings  and  places  nuis- 
ances,  wherein  or  upon  which  any  spirituous,   vinous,   malt  or 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  239 

other  alcoholic  liquor  is  unlawfully  sold,  served  or  given  away, 
or  which  are  used  for  the  purpose  of  unlawfully  selling,  serv- 
ing or  giving  away  such  liquors;  and  providing  for  the  abate- 
ment of  such  nuisances. 

S.  B.  588.  Campbell.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  March 
19,  1889,  to  prevent  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  to  persons 
addicted  to  the  inordinate  use  of  intoxicating  liquors. 

A.  B.  675.  Wright.  Prohibiting  the  sale,  gift  or  delivery 
of  intoxicating  liquor  at  public  school  houses,  and  prescribing 
penalties    for   the   violation   of   any   provision    hereof. 

S.  B.  1069.  Duncan.  An  Act  to  regulate  the  number  of 
licenses  which  may  be  issued  to  retail  liquor  establishments 
in  proportion  to  the  population  of  any  county,  city  and  county, 
city,  town  or  supervisor  district  in  which  the  sale  of  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  is  permitted;  defining  certain  terms;  providing 
penalties  for  the  issuance  of  any  licenses  in  excess  of  the 
number  herein   provided   for. 

Limits  number  of  licenses  to  one  for  each  1000  population. 

LOCAL     OPTION. 

S.  B.  401.  Duncan.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  8  and  11  of  an 
Act  approved  April  4,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  regulation  of  the 
traffic  in  alcoholic  liquors  by  establishing  local  option;  author- 
izing the  filing  of  petitions  praying  for  elections  to  vote  upon 
the  question  whether  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  shall  be 
licensed  within  the  territory  described  in  such  petitions;  pro- 
viding for  the  calling  and  holding  of  such  elections;  making  it 
the  duty  of  the  proper  governing  body  to  declare  such  territory 
to  be  no-license  territory  unless  a  majority  of  votes  is  cast  in 
favor  of  license;  providing  that  no  licenses,  permits  or  other 
authority  to  sell  or  distribute  alcoholic  liquors  in  no-license 
territory  shall  be  granted;  forfeiting  and  declaring  void  all 
such  licenses  or  permits  theretofore  issued  and  in  force;  mak- 
ing it  a  penal  offense  to  sell,  give  away  or  distribute  alcoholic 
liquors  within  such  territon%  with  certain  exceptions;  and  pro- 
viding penalties  for  such  offenses,  relative  to  territory  in- 
cluded within  petition;   form  of  petition;   form  of  ballot. 

S.  B.  8.  Duncan.  Amending  Sections  1,  2  and  11  of  an  Act, 
approved  April  4,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  regulation  of  the 
traffic  in  alcoholic  liquors  by  establishing  local  option;  author- 
izing the  filing  of  petitions  praying  for  elections  to  vote  upon 
the  question  whether  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  shall  be 
licensed  within  the  territory  described  in  such  petitions;  pro- 
viding for  the  calling  and  holding  of  such  elections;  making 
it  the  duty  of  the  proper  governing  body  to  declare  such  terri- 
tory to  be  no-license  territory  unless  a  majority  of  votes  is 
cast  in  favor  of  license;  providing  that  no  licenses,  permits 
or    other    authority    to    sell    or    distribute    alcoholic    liquors    in 


240  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

no-license  territory  shall  be  granted;  forfeiting  and  declaring 
void  all  such  licenses  or  permits  theretofore  issued  and  in 
force;  making  it  a  penal  offense  to  sell,  give  away  or  dis- 
tribute alcoholic  liquors  within  such  territory,  with  certain 
exceptions;  and  providing  penalties  for  such  offenses. 

A.  B.  1336.  Long.  Amending  Section  6  of  an  Act,  approved 
April  4,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  regulation  of  the  traffic  in 
alcoholic  liquors  by  establishing  local  option;  authorizing  the 
filing  of  petitions  praying  for  elections  to  vote  upon  the  ques- 
tion whether  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  shall  be  licensed 
within  the  territory  described  in  such  petitions;  providing  for 
the  calling  and  holding  of  such  elections;  making  it  the  duty 
of  the  proper  governing  body  to  declare  such  territory  to  be 
no-license  territory  unless  a  majority  of  votes  is  cast  in  favor 
of  license;  providing  that  no  licenses,  permits  or  other  author- 
ity to  sell  or  distribute  alcoholic  liquors  in  no-license  territory 
shall  be   granted,    etc. 

A.  B.  1185.  Phelps.  Amending  Sections  13  and  14  of  "An 
Act  to  provide  for  the  regulation  of  the  traffic  in  alcoholic 
liquors  by  establishing  local  option,"   etc. 

Adds  (Sec.  13)  transportation  companies  to  those  forbidden 
to  sell  or  distribute  liquor  in  no  license  territory,  and  (Sec.  14) 
provides  that  in  prosecutions  for  violation,  common  repute  of 
character  of  places  (blind  pigs)  may  be  received  as  compe- 
tent  evidence. 

A.  B.  1039.  Scott,  F.  C.  (by  request).  Amending  the  seventh 
subdivision  of  Section  16  of  an  Act  to  provide  for  the  regulation 
of  the  traffic  in  alcoholic  liquors  by  establishing  local  option; 
authorizing  the  filing  of  petitions  praying  for  elections  to 
vote  upon  the  question  whether  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors 
shall  be  licensed  within  the  territory  described  in  such  pe- 
titions, etc. 

LOS     ANGELES     STATE     BUILDING. 

S.  B.  160.  Brown.  Providing  for  the  selection,  location, 
purchase  or  acquisition  of  a  site  for  a  state  building  in  the 
city  of  Los  Angeles;  to  provide  for  the  construction,  equip- 
ment and  furnishing  of  a  state  building  thereon,  and  for  the 
improvement  of  said  site;  to  prescribe  the  use  or  occupancy 
of  said  building;  creating  a  commission  to  locate  and  acquire 
said  site  and  to  construct  said  building,  with  power  to  deter- 
mine the  respective  amounts  to  be  paid  for  said  site,  for  the 
improvement  thereof,  for  the  construction  of  said  building  and 
for  furnishing  or  equipping  the  same;  providing  for  the  issu- 
ance and  sale  of  state  bonds  to  be  known  as  "Los  Angeles 
state  building  bonds",  to  provide  a  fund  therefor;  establishing 
said  fund,  appropriating  the  proceeds  thereof  for  said  purpose 
and    directing    the    manner    in   which    the    same    shall    be  :  ex- 


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pended;  creating  a  sinking  fund  for  the  payment  of  said  bonds 
and  interest  thereon;  making  an  appropriation  therefor,  defin- 
ing the  duties  of  state  officers  in  relation  thereto,  and  providing 
for  the  collection  of  revenue  for  said  purpose;  appropriating 
two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  for  the  expense  of  prepara- 
tion of  said  bonds  and  providing  for  the  submission  of  this 
Act   to   a  vote  of   the  people. 

MAPS,    RECORDING     OF. 

A.  B.  457.  Manning  (by  request).  Amending  Sections  1  and 
4  of  an  Act  approved  March  15,  1907,  requiring  the  recording  of 
maps  of  subdivisions  of  land  into  lots  for  the  purpose  of  sale, 
and  prescribing  the  conditions  on  which  such  maps  may  be 
recorded  and  prohibiting  the  selling  or  offering  for  sale  of  land 
by  reference  to  said  maps  unless  the  same  are  recorded. 

S.    B.    611.      Carr.      Identical   with   A.    B.    457.      Manning. 

A.  B.  81.  Bruck.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  15,  1907,  amended  June  11,  1913,  requiring  the  recording 
of  maps  of  subdivisions  oc^Iand  into  lots  for  the  purpose  of 
sale,  and  prescribing  the  conditions  on  which  such  maps  may 
be  recorded  and  prohibiting  the  selling  or  offering  for  sale  of 
land  by  reference  to  said  maps  unless  the  same  are  recorded, 
relating  to  approval  of  such  maps. 

Provides  that  governing  body  may  refuse  to  approve  map 
or  plat  unless  it  is  established  to  its  satisfaction  that  proposal 
to  subdivide  property  shown  thereon  is  made  in  good  faith. 
Upon  such  showing  being  made,  governing  body  shall,  within 
30  days  after  same  is  submitted,  approve  or  disapprove  such 
map   or   plat. 

MARKETS    AND     MARKETING. 

(See   Commission   Merchants;   Produce   Exchange   Commission.) 
S.    B.    93.      Stuckenbruck.      Providing    for    the    establishment 
of    county    free    markets    and    for    the    conducting    and    main- 
tenance   of    the    same. 

S.  B.  341.  Brown.  Providing  for  the  organization  of  the 
State  marketing  commission,  to  define  its  powers  and  duties 
and  the  rights  and  privileges  of  producers  of  agricultural, 
horticultural,  dairy  and  farm  products,  and  products  manu- 
factured or  processed  therefrom,  which  shall  be  grown,  raised, 
produced,  processed,  or  manufactured  within  the  State  of 
California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the  offense  of  using 
or  imitating  the  State  brand  or  label  adopted  by  such  commis- 
sion, and  appropriating  money  for  establishing  and  carrying 
out  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  creating  the  "State  Marketing 
Commission  Fund,"  and  providing  for  the  manner  in  which 
money  shall  be  placed  therein  and  paid  therefrom,  and  ap- 
propriating the  moneys  therein  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of 


242  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

this  Act,  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  318.  McPherson.  Providing  for  the  creation  of  the 
State  Commission  Market,  and  the  organization  thereof,  to 
carry  on  the  business  of  receiving  from  the  producers  the 
agricultural,  fishery,  dairy  and  farm  products  of  the  State  of 
California  and  selling  and  disposing  of  such  products  on  com- 
mission, creating  the  "State  Commission  Market  Fund"  and 
appropriating  money  therefor. 

MARRIAGE     AND     DIVORCE. 

S.  B.  361.  Gerdes.  Directing  the  State  Bureau  of  Vital  Sta- 
tistics to  collect,  compile  and  present  certain  statistics  relat- 
ing to  marriage  and  divorce  and  making  it  the  duty  of  certain 
officers  to  furnish  such  statistics  in  compliance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act,  and  making  an  appropriation  therefor. 
(S.   B.   1170.    Gerdes.    Pending  Legislation,   1913,  p.   512.) 

A.   B.   1162.     Phillips.     Identical  with  S.   B.   361.     Gerdes. 

McENERNEY     ACT. 

A.  B.  735.  Beck.  Amending  an  Act  to  provide  for  the 
establishment  and  quieting  of  title  to  real  property  in  case 
of  the  loss  or  destruction  of  public  records,  by  making  said 
Act  also  applicable  to  real  property  whose  records  have  been 
destroyed  among  the  records  of  another  county  of  which  it 
was   formerly   a   part. 

S.   B.  1134.     Duncan.     Identical  with  A.  B.   735.     Beck. 

MEDICAL     PRACTICE     ACT. 

(See  Dentists;  Pharmacy;  Vaccination.) 
S.  B.  500.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  8,  9,  10,  11,  14 
and  17  of  an  Act  approved  June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  exami- 
nation of  applicants  for  license,  and  the  practice  of  those 
licensed  to  treat  disease,  injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physi- 
cal or  mental  conditions  of  human  beings,  to  establish  a 
board  of  medical  examiners,  to  provide  for  their  appointment 
and  prescribe  their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act 
entitled  an  Act  for  the  regulation  of  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  surgery,  osteopathy  and  other  systems  or  modes  of 
treating  the  sick  or  afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and 
for  the  appointment  of  a  board  of  medical  examiners  in  the 
matter  of  said  regulation,  approved  March  14,  1907,  and  Acts 
amendatory  thereof,  and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  and 
parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  said  amendments  re- 
lating to  the  board  of  examiners,  and  to  the  requirements  of 
applicants     for     examination,     and     to     the     requirements     of 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  243 

schools,  and  to  the  revocation  of  licenses  and  to  the  regula- 
tion of  practice. 

A.   B.  593.     Wright.     Identical   with    S.    B.    500.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  443.  Benson.  Amending  Sections  2,  3,  4,  5,  8,  9,  JO, 
11,  12,  13,  14,  17  and  18  of  an  Act  approved  June  2,  1913, 
to  regulate  the  examination  of  applicants  for  license,  and 
the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat  diseases,  injuries, 
deformities,  or  other  physical  or  mental  conditions  of  human 
beings;  to  establish  a  board  of  medical  examiners,  to  provide 
for  their  appointment  and  prescribe  their  powers  and  duties, 
and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  for  the  regulation  of 
the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  osteopathy,  and  other 
systems  and  modes  of  treating  the  sick  or  afflicted,  in  the 
State  of  California,  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  of 
medical  examiners  in  the  matter  of  said  regulation",  approved 
March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amendatory  thereof,  and  also  to 
repeal  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this 
Act,  and  adding  a  new  section  thereto  to  be  numbered  12V2, 
relating  to   the  practice   of  chiropody. 

A.    B.    544.     Ryan.      Identical   with    S.    B.    443.     Benson. 

A.  B.  640.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act  approved 
June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  examination  of  applicants  for 
license,  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat  diseases, 
injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or  mental  conditions  of 
human  beings;  to  establish  a  board  of  medical  examiners,  to 
provide  for  their  appointment  and  prescribe  their  powers  and 
duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  for  the  regula- 
tion of  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  osteopathy,  and 
other  systems  or  modes  of  treating  the  sick  or  afflicted,  in 
the  State  of  California,  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board 
of  medical  examiners  in  the  matter  of  said  regulation,"  ap- 
proved March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amendatory  thereof,  and  also 
to  repeal  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this 
Act. 

A.  B.  1085.  Gelder.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  examination  of  appli- 
cants for  license,  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat 
diseases,  injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or  mental 
conditions  of  human  beings;  to  establish  a  Board  of  Medi- 
cal Examiners,  to  provide  for  their  appointment  and  prescribe 
their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An 
Act  for  the  regulation  of  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery, 
osteopathy,  and  other  systems  or  modes  of  treating  the  sick 
or  afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  Board  of  Medical  Examiners  in  the  matter  of  said 
regulation,"  approved  March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amendatory 
thereof,    and   also    to   repeal   all   other   acts   and   parts   of   acts 


244  PENDING    DEGIS.LATION,  1915. 

in  conflict  with  this  Act,  relating  to  the  issuance  of  "reci- 
procity  certificates." 

S.  B.  1077.  Flaherty  (by  request).  Amending  Section  13  of 
an  Act,  approved  June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  examination 
of  applicants  for  license,  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed, 
to  treat  diseases,  injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or 
mental  conditions  of  human  beings;  to  establish  a  Board  of 
Medical  Examiners,  to  provide  for  their  appointment  and 
prescribe  their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  en- 
titled   "An   Act    for  the   regulation   of   the  practice   of   medicine 

ml  surgery,  osteopathy,  and  other  systems  or  modes  of  treat- 
ing the  sick  or  afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  for  the 
appointment  of  a  Board  of  Medical- Examiners  in  the  matter 
of  said  regulation",  approved  March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amenda- 
tory thereof,  and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of 
Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  relating  to  the  issuance  of 
certificates  without  examination  to  holders  of  certificates  from 
other    States   requiring    similar   qualifications. 

A.  B.  642.  Gelder;  Amending  Section  14  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  examination  of  appli- 
cants for  license,  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat 
diseases,  injuries,  deformities,  or.  other  physical  or  mental 
conditions  of  human  beings;  to  establish  a  board  of  medical 
examiners,  to  provide  for  their  appointment  and  prescribe 
their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An 
Act  for  the  regulation  of  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery, 
osteopathy,  and  other  systems  or  modes  of  treating  the  sick  or 
afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  for  the  appointment 
of  a  board  of  medical  examiners  in  the  matter  of  said  regula- 
tion," approved  March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amendatory  thereof, 
and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict 
with   this  Act.     Relating   to   advertising. 

Omits  entirely  Subdivision  10,  Section  14,  providing  as  a 
ground  for  refusal  of  certificate  advertising,  announcing  or 
stating  in  any  manner  that  the  holder  of  such  certificate  or 
any  other  person,  company  or  association  by  which  he  is  em- 
ployed, will  cure  or  attempt  to  cure,  or  will  treat,  any  venereal 
disease,  or  will  cure  or  attempt  to  cure  or  treat  persons  for 
any  sexual  disease,  for  lost  manhood,  sexual  weakness  or 
sexual  disorder;  or  being  employed  by  or  being  in  the  service 
of  any  person,  firm,  association,  or  corporation  so  advertising, 
announcing,    or   stating. 

A.  B.  641.  Gelder.  .Amending  Section  18  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  2,  1913,  to  regulate  the  examination  of  applicants 
for  license,  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat  dis- 
eases, injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or  mental  con- 
ditions of  human  beings;  to  establish  a  board  of  medical 
examiners,    to    provide    for    their    appointment    and    prescribe 


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their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  "An 
Act  for  the  regulation  of  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery, 
osteopathy,  and  other  systems  or  modes  of  treating  the  sick 
or  afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  board  of  medical  examiners  in  the  matter  of  said 
regulation,"  approved  March  14,  1907,  and  Acts  amendatory 
thereof,  and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts 
in  conflict  with  this  Act;  said  amendment  relating  to  fines  and 
penalties. 

S.  B.  276.  Irwin.  Providing  for  the  granting  of  certificates 
to  practice  medicine  and  surgery  by  the  board  of  medical 
examiners  of  the  State  of  California,  to  graduates  from  legally 
chartered  or  reputable  medical  schools  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, upon  payment  of  fee  of  $25.00. 

A.   B.   272.     Pettis.     Identical  with  S.   B.   276.     Irwin. 

S.  B.  1078.  Thompson  (by  request).  Authorizing  and  regu- 
lating the  practice  of  chiropractic  in  the  State  of  California; 
creating  a  State  Board  of  Chiropractic  Examiners;  providing 
for  the  appointment  of  the  same;  defining  its  powers,  duties 
and  emoluments;  to  provide  a  standard  of  education  for  chiro- 
practors; to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation  of  this  Act; 
to  provide  for  the  examination  and  licensing  of  chiropractors 
in  the  State  of  California,  and  to  repeal  any  or  all  parts  of 
any  Act  or  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act. 

A.  B.  256.  Bartlett  (by  request).  Authorizing  and  regulating 
the  practice  of  chiropractic  in  the  State  of  California;  creating 
a  state  board  of  chiropractic  examiners;  providing  for  the 
appointment  of  the  same;  defining  its  powers,  duties,  and 
emoluments;  to  provide  a  standard  of  education  for  chiroprac- 
tors; to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation  of  this  Act;  to 
provide  for  the  examination  and  licensing  of  chiropractors  in 
the  State  of  California,  and  to  repeal  any  or  all  parts  of  any 
Act  or  Acts  in  conflict  with  this  Act. 

A.  B.  428.  Phillips.  Authorizing  and  regulating  the  practice 
of  cosmetic  surgery  and  facial  dermatology  in  the  State  of 
California;  creating  a  State  board  of  cosmetic  surgery  and 
facial  dermatologlcal  examiners;  providing  for  the  appointment 
of  the  same;  defining  its  powers,  duties  and  emolument's;  to 
provide  for  the  examination  and  licensing  of  cosmetic  surgeons 
and  facial  dermatologists  in  the  State  of  California,  and  to  re- 
peal all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  herewith. 

A.  B.  1208.  Wright,  T.  M.  To  regulate  the  practice  ol 
optometry;  to  provide  for  the  appointment -of  a  board  of 
optometry,  define  its  duties  and  powers  and  prescribing  a 
penalty  for  the  violation  of  this  Act. 

S.   B.   1039.     Mott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1208.     Wright. 

A.  B.  252.  Lyon  (by  request).  Regulating  the  practice  of 
drugless  system  or  method  of  treating  sick  or  afflicted  human 


246  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

beings;  regulating  the  examination  of  applicants  for  license; 
regulating  registration  of  applicants;  allowing  those  licensed 
to  treat  diseases,  injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or 
psychopathic  conditions  of  human  beings  by  drugless  methods; 
to  establish  a  board  of  examiners  for  drugless  physicians;  to 
provide  for  their  appointment  and  formation  and  prescribe 
their  powers  and  duties;  making  violations  of  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  a  misdemeanor;  and  repealing  all  parts  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  14,  1907,  to  regulate  the  examination  of  ap- 
plicants for  license  and  the  practice  of  those  licensed,  to  treat 
diseases,  injuries,  deformities,  or  other  physical  or  mental 
conditions  of  human  beings;  to  establish  a  board  of  medical 
-examiners,  to  provide  for  their  appointment  and  prescribe 
their  powers  and  duties,  and  to  repeal  all  parts  of  an  Act 
entitled  "An  Act  for  the  regulation  of  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine and  surgery,  osteopathy,  and  other  systems  or  modes 
of  treating  the  sick  or  afflicted,  in  the  State  of  California,  and 
for  the  appointment  of  a  board  of  medical  examiners  in  the 
matter  of  said  regulation,  and  Acts  amendatory  thereof,  and 
also  repealing  all  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with 
this  Act,  approved  June  2,  1913,  in  conflict  with  this  Act, 
or  pertaining  in  any  way  to  the  examination  and  licensing  of 
.  applicants  to  practice  drugless  systems  or  the  practice  of 
drugless  systems,  and  repealing  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in 
conflict  with   this  Act. 

This  is  the  same  measure  that  was  submitted  to  the  people 
by  initiative  at  the  last  general  election  and  defeated.  It 
creates  a  state  board  of  drugless  physicians,  with  office  in 
Oakland,  creating  fund  from  fees  for  members  and  employee's 
compensation,  salaries  and  expenses,  regulates  examinations 
and  issuance  of  certificates.  Authorizes  holders  thereof  to 
treat  all  physical  or  mental  ailments  of  human  beings  without 
drugs  or  medicines,  use  "Doctor",  "Dr.",  or  "D.  P."  in  con- 
nection with  "Drugless  Physician'  and  sign  birth  and  death 
certificates.  Exempts  from  examination  any  person  practicing 
any  drugless  system  for  six  months  prior  to  effective  date 
.of  Act,  but  requires  all  who  come  subsequent  thereto  to  pass 
a  stiff  examination.  Prescribes  penalties  for  violations  and 
repeals  all  inconsistent  and  conflicting  provisions  of  law  gov- 
erning the  practice  of  medicine   and  healing. 

S.   B.   310.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.   B.   252.     Lyon. 

MEETINGS,    UNINCORPORATED    SOCIETIES,    CALLING    OF. 

(See  Civil  Code.) 
A.   B.   65.     Ryan.     Providing  for  the  manner  Of  calling  meet- 
ings of  an  unincorporated  society,   organization  or  association, 
when    the    manner    of    calling    the    same    is    unprovided    for    in 
the    constitution    or    by-laws    of    such    unincorporated    society, 


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organization  or  association,  or  the  officer  whose  duty  it  is 
to   call   such   meeting   fails   or   refuses   so   to   do. 

Provides  that  meeting  may  be  called  by  twelve  members, 
call  to  state  time  and  place  of  meeting,  and  by  giving  two 
weeks'  notice  by  publication  in  newspaper  in  county,  or  city 
and  county,   where  last  precedng  meeting  was  held. 

S.   B.   119.     Tyrrell.     Identical  with  A.   B.  65.     Ryan. 

MINES    AND     MINING. 
(See  also  Capital  and  Labor.) 

S.  B.  916.  Maddux  (by  request).  Establishing  and  creating 
a  department  of  the  State  Mining  Bureau  for  the  protection 
of  the  natural  resources  of  petroleum  and  gas  from  waste  and 
destruction  through  improper  operations  in  production;  pro- 
viding for  the  appointment  of  a  State  oil  and  gas  supervisor; 
prescribing  his  duties  and  powers;  fixing  his  compensation; 
providing  for  the  appointment  of  deputies  and  employees; 
providing  for  their  duties  and  compensation;  providing  for 
the  inspection  of  petroleum  and  gas  wells;  requiring  all  per- 
sons operating  petroleum  and  gas  wells  to  make  certain  re- 
ports; providing  procedure  for  arbitration  of  departmental 
rulings;  creating  a  fund  for  the  purposes  of  the  Act;  fixing  a 
fee  to  be  paid  by  operators  and  providing  for  the  collection 
thereof;  and  making  an  appropriation  for  the  purpose  of  this 
Act. 

A.  B.  35S.  Harris.  To  protect  the  health  of  underground 
workers  in  mines  and  tunnels  and  regulating  the  use  of  drills 
driven  by  mechanical  power  and  the  forcing  out  of  under- 
ground mines  and  tunnels  smoke  and  gases  generated  by 
blasting  powder  and  other  explosives,  and  the  ventilating  of 
said  mines  and  tunnels,  and  prescribing  penalties  for  the  in- 
fraction of  such  regulations,  and  declaring  that  such  infraction 
constitutes  gross  negligence  in  case  of  actions  for  damage  to 
health  of  employees. 

A.  B.  974.  Ream.  An  Act  to  regulate  mines  and  under- 
ground workings  for  the  protection  and  safety  of  workmen; 
providing  for  the  inspection  of  mines  and  underground  work- 
ings by  the  Industrial  Accident  Commission;  authorizing  and 
directing  said  commission  to  appoint  two  inspectors  of  mines; 
prescribing  their  powers,  duties,  compensation,  and  author- 
izing certain  expenditures  for  the  purposes  of  this  Act;  re- 
quiring employers  and  employes  to  comply  with  the  provis- 
ions of  this  Act,  and  fixing  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof. 

Provides  for  appointment  of  chief  inspector  of  mines  at 
$3000  per  year  and  an  assistant  at  $1800  per  year.  Duty  of 
inspector  to  at  least  once  a  year  visit  each  mining  county  of 
State  and  examine  such  mines  as  in  his  judgment  require 
examination   for  purpose   of  determining  their   condition   as  to 


248  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

safety,  and  for  that  purpose  shall  have  full  power  at  all  hours 
to  enter  and  examine  any  and  all  mines  in  this  State  and  all 
workings  and  equipment,  and  to  require,  in  case  of  dangerous 
conditions,  that  all  necessary  changes  be  made  without  delays; 
neglect  or  refusal  by  mine  owners  or  operators  to  comply 
with  his  orders  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  culpable  neg- 
ligence  in   case  of  accident. 

All  mine  owners  or  operators  shall  furnish  to  the  commis- 
sion not  later  than  June  30  of  each  year  a  detailed  report 
showing  character  of  mine,  number  of  men  then  employed 
and  maximum  number  of  men  to  be  employed  during  ensuing 
year,   method  of  working  and   general  condition  of  mine. 

Upon  receipt  of  formal  complaint  in  writing  signed  by  one 
or  more  persons,  stating  that  a  mine  is  unsafe,  and  specifi- 
cally stating  in  what  particulars  it  is  dangerous  and  other 
details,  commission  shall  cause  such  mine  to  be  examined, 
and  if  complaint  justified  owner  or  operator  shall  be  required 
to  remedy  condition  complained  of  on  penalty  of  having 
dangerous   workings    closed   until   defects   are    remedied. 

District  Attorney  is  charged  with  prosecuting  all  mine  own- 
ers or  operators  neglecting  or  refusing  to  comply  with  com- 
mission's   orders. 

Upon  occurrence  of  a  serious  or  fatal  accident  owners  or 
operators  of  mine  shall  notify  commission,  who  shall  cause 
inspector   to    make    full    investigation. 

Chief  inspector  of  mines  shall  on  first  Monday  of  December 
of  each  year  make  report  which  shall  be  printed  with  report 
of   commission. 

No  blasting  powder  or  high  explosives,  except  such  as  are 
necessary  for  temporary  requirements,  shall  be  stored  in  any 
mine,  and  use  of  gasoline  underground  is  prohibited.  Wooden 
tamping  bars  shall  be  furnished,  and  the  use  of  steel  or 
metal  tamping  bars  by  any  person  is  declared  a  misdemeanor, 
punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $5  nor  more  than  $50;  all 
timber  removed  shall  be  taken  from  mines;  all  hoisting  ma- 
chinery shall  be  equipped  with  an  indicator  in  plain  view  of 
engineer;  all  persons  are  prohibited  from  riding  on  cage,  skip 
or  bucket  when  loaded  with  tools,  timber,  powder  or  other 
material  so  loaded  as  to  render  riding  unsafe;  all  shafts  shall 
be  equipped  with  ladders,  and  shafts  more  than  200  feet  deep 
inclined  more  than  45  degrees  from  horizontal,  equipped  with 
hoisting  machinery,  shall  be  divided  into  at  least  two  compart- 
ments. All  mines  over  300  feet  deep  having  a  single  shaft  as 
only  means  of  egress,  covered  by  non-fireproof  building,  shall 
have  bulkhead  or  trap-door  closing  from  point  outside  build- 
ing, constructed  at  least  25  feet  below  collar  of  shaft,  and 
below  a  drift  driven  to  surface  or  point  beyond  walls  raise 
and    ladder  -  way    for    exit   in    case    of   fire;    signboards    plainly 


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marking  direction  must  be  installed  where  exit  or  outlet  is 
not  in  direct  or  continuous  line;  employes  engaged  in  sinking 
shafts  or  inclines  shall  at  all  times  be  provided  with  ladders 
for  exit;  guard  rails  or  hand  holds  must  be  maintained  at  all 
shaft  stations,  and  all  winzes  and  mill  holes  or  chutes  shall  be 
protected;  cars  and  cages  in  shafts  over  350  feet  deep  must 
be  enclosed  and  fitted  with  doors  and  overhead  bars;  a  pillar 
of  ground  shall  be  left  on  each  side  of  shaft  of  sufficient  di- 
mensions to  protect  it,  and  no  stoping  shall  be  permitted 
within  such  close  proximity  to  shaft  as  to  render  same  in- 
secure. 

No  structure  shall  be  erected  over  any  mine  except  head 
frames  necessary  for  hoisting,  and  hatch  necessary  for  closing 
shaft,  except  that  house  of  non-inflammable  or  fire-proof  ma- 
terial may  be  erected;  in  case  of  existing  houses,  all  inflam- 
mable material  stored  therein  shall  be  immediately  removed, 
and  storage  of  such  material  within  30  feet  from  exterior  walls 
of  such   housing  is  prohibited. 

Every  tunnel  or  adit  level,  mouth  of  which  is  covered  by 
house,  shall  be  provided  with  door  near  mouth,  closing  from 
outside  building  with  pull  wire  in  event  of  fire;  inside  of  door 
raise  shall  be  run  to  surface  for  exit. 

No  rope  or  cable  for  hoisting,  except  an  iron  or  steel  wire 
cable,  shall  be  used,  nor  shall  any  cable  be  continued  in  use 
either  when  the  number  of  breaks  in  any  running  foot  exceeds 
ten  per  cent  of  total  number  of  wires  therein,  or  when  wires 
on  crown  of  strands  are  worn  down  to  less  that  one-half 
original  diameter,  or  when  it  shows  marked  signs  of  corrosion. 

All  steam  boilers  shall  be  kept  in  good  order,  and  examined 
and  inspected  once  in  twelve  months  or  oftener  if  inspector  of 
mines   deems   necessary. 

Good  and  sufficient  ventilation  shall  be  maintained  at  all 
times. 

Men  shall  not  be  permitted  to  work  in  stopes  so  far  apart 
that  cries  of  one  for  help  in  case  of  need  cannot  be  heard; 
an  engineer  shall  be  on  duty  at  all  times  to  answer  signals 
connected  with  shaft  hoists;  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 
person  to  ride  on  bale  or  cable  of  hoisting  bucket,  cage  or 
skip  unless  safe  to  do  so;  notice  of  maximum  number  of  men 
permitted  to  ride  on  or  in  cage,  skip  or  bucket  at  one  time 
shall  be  posted  at  collar  of  shaft  and  on  each  level,  and  it  is 
made  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  to  ride  upon  or  in  an 
overloaded  cage,  ship  or  bucket,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less 
than   $5  or  more  than   $50. 

At  least  two  smoke  or  respirator  helmets  shall  be  kept  at 
every  mine  employing  40  or  more  men  underground,  with  an 
additional  smoke  helmet  for  each  additional  fifty  men  employed. 

Any  owner,  agent,  manager  or  lessee  operating  a  mine  failing 


250  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

to  comply  with  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $100  and 
not  more  than  $500,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  30 
days  or  more  than  6  months,  or  both. 

Act  not  to  apply  to  any  mine  worked  by  owners,  or  where 
no  men  are  employed  working  therein  for  wages;  and  nothing 
herein  is  to  be  construed  as  repealing  or  modifying  any  existing 
law,  except  so  far  as  such  provisions  relate  to  mines  and  are 
inconsistent  herewith. 

$16,600  appropriated  to  carry  out  provisions  of  Act 

A.  B.  622.  Harris.  Regulating  the  hours  of  employment  in 
underground  mines  or  any  underground  workings,  whether 
for  the  purpose  of  tunneling,  making  excavation  or  to  accom- 
plish any  other  purpose  or  design,  or  in  smelting  and  reduc- 
tion works. 

Provides  for  an  eight-hour  day,  hours  of  employment  to  be 
consecutive,  and  for  underground  workers  to  begin  and  end 
at  entrance  to  shaft  or  tunnel,  excluding  time  for  meals; 
except  that  in  case  of  emergency,  where  life  or  property  is  in 
danger,  period  may  be  longer;  violation  a  misdemeanor,  pun- 
ishable by  fine  of  not  less  than  $50  or  more  than  $300  or  im- 
prisonment  not   more   than   three   months,   or  both. 

A.  B.  1269.  Encell.  To  regulate  the  hours  of  employment  in 
underground  mines  and  in  smelting  and  reduction  works  and 
to  repeal  the  Act  approved  March  10,  1909,  regulating  the 
hours  of  employment  in  underground  mines  and  in  smelting 
and  reduction  works;  and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  May  30, 
1913,  regulating  the  hours  of  employment  in  underground 
mines,  underground  workings,  whether  for  the  purpose  of 
tunneling,  making  excavations  or  to  accomplish  any  other 
purpose  or  design,  or  in  smelting  and  reduction  works,  and 
also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with 
or  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  1055.  Canepa  (by  request).  To  regulate  and  control 
the  dredging  for  gold  or  other  minerals  or  metals  on  culti- 
vated or  arable  land,  and  giving  the  State  Railroad  Commis- 
sion   power    to    control    and    regulate    the    same. 

Requires  dredging  companies  to  conduct  their  work  so  that 
the  land  will  be  left  in  an  arable  condition.  Dredging  is  to  be 
under  the  control  of  the  Railroad  Commission  and  makes  a 
permit  from  the  Commission  necessary  to  be  obtained  before 
dredging  can  be  done.  Violation  of  the  Act  is  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 
S.   B.   102.     Brown.     Creating  and   establishing  a  commission 
for  the  investigating  and  gathering  of  data  and  statistics  con- 
cerning   the    use    of    live    animals    for    experimental    purposes; 


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providing  for  the  appointment  of  said  commission,  to  be 
known  as  the  "commission  for  the  preservation  of  statistics 
of  animal  life,"  and  prescribing  the  powers  and  duties  of 
said   commission   and    its   members. 

S.  B.  317.  Jones.  Providing  for  the  care  and  confinement 
of  certain  delinquents  in  correctional  institutions,  to  establish 
two  correctional  institutions,  to  provide  for  the  government 
thereof,    and    making   an    appropriation    therefor. 

S.  B.  318.  Jones.  Providing  for  the  regulation  of  county 
jails,  county  hospitals  and  almshouses,  county  orphanages,  de- 
tention homes  and  city  or  town  jails  under  the  supervision 
of   the    State   Board   of   Charities   and   Corrections. 

S.  B.  323.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved April  21,  1911,  requiring  the  compilation  and  publication 
of  reports  of  the  financial  transactions  of  the  several  counties 
and  municipalities  of  the  State  and  making  an  appropriation 
therefor. 

S.  B.  338.  Benson.  Prohibiting  the  making  or  soliciting  of 
contracts  wherein  one  party  thereto  obligates  himself  to  make 
to  the  other  party  periodical  payments  which  may  be  applied 
to  the  operating  expenses  of  the  obligee,  or  which  may  be 
forfeited,  and  wherein  an  agreement  by  the  obligee  to  lend 
money  to  the  obligor  is  made  to  depend  upon  the  date  of  con- 
tract and  the  number  of  periodical  payments;  and  declares 
violation  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than 
$100  or  more  than  $1000,  or  by  imprisonment  not  less  than  30 
days  or  more  than  one  year,  or  both. 

A.  B.  381.     Wright.     Identical  with  S.  B.  338.    Benson. 

S.  B.  393.  Cogswell.  Creating  a  department  of  natural  re- 
sources and  creating  the  office  of  secretary  of  said  depart- 
ment; defining  his  powers  and  duties  and  fixing  his  salary; 
providing  for  the  consolidation  of  certain  commissions,  boards 
and  offices;  providing  for  the  organization  and  administration 
of  said  department,  and  defining  the  powers  and  duties  of  its 
officers. 

A.  B.  490.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  393.     Cogswell. 

S.  B.  406.  Scott.  To  select,  designate  and  adopt  a  song  en- 
titled "I  Love  You  California"  as  State  song  to  be  known  as 
"California's  State  Song." 

A.  B.  350.  Bruck.  Providing  for  the  printing  and  binding  of 
the  several  Codes  of  the  State  of  California  after  each  regular 
session  of  the  Legislature  thereof  with  the  amendments  there- 
to, by  the  State  Printer,  and  for  the  sale  and  distribution 
thereof. 

A.  B.  387.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
March  23,  1901,  to  secure  to  native  born  and  naturalized 
citizens  of  the  United  States  the  exclusive  right  to  be  em- 
ployed   in    any    department    of    the     State,     county,     city    and 


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county,  or  incorporated  city  or  town  government  in  this  State, 
relating  to  the  employment  of  citizens  of  the  United  States. 

A.  B.  401.  Bruek.  Providing  for  the  transfer  and  conveyance 
to  the  regents  of  the  University  of  California  the  title  to  a 
certain  lot,  piece  or  parcel  of  land  situate,  lying  and  being  in 
the  County  of  Napa,  State  of  California,  and  heretofore  pur- 
chased for  said  State  under  and  by  virtue  of  an  Act  approved 
April  24,  1911,  to  establish  the  California  State  Reformatory; 
and  the  construction  of  buildings  and  other  improvements  in 
connection  therewith;  to  provide  for  the  commitment  and 
transfer  of  prisoners  thereto  and  therefrom;  to  provide  for  the 
equipment,  conduct  and  management  thereof;  and  to  make  an 
appropriation  therefor,  and  providing  for  the  use,  management 
and  control  thereof  by  the  regents  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.  B.  455.  Birdsall  (by  request).  Creating  a  State  Art  Com- 
mission, to  be  composed  of  the  Governor  (ex-officio),  one  archi- 
tect, one  artist  painter,  one  sculptor,  and  two  persons  known 
for  their  interest  in  the  development  of  art,  to  be  appointed 
by  the  Governor;  the  painter,  sculptor  and  architect  from 
nominations  made  by  the  Southern  California  Chapter  and  the 
Northern  California  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Architects  and  the  San  Francisco  Society  of  Architects;  pre- 
scribing the  qualifications  and  duties  of  its  members  and  pro- 
hibiting the  purchase,  gift  or  acceptance  of  any  work  of  art 
by  the  State  until  the  State  Art  Commission  has  approved  the 
design   for   the   same,    and   appropriating   $12,000   therefor. 

A.  B.  489.  Conard.  Amending  Section  14  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  2,  1911,  creating  a  Board  of  Pilot  Commissioners 
for  the  harbor  of  San  Diego,  defining  their  duties  and  fixing 
their    compensation. 

S.  B.  523.  Luce.  Amending  Section  14  of  an  Act  creating  a 
board  of  pilot  commissioners  for  the  harbor  of  S'an  Diego,  de- 
fining their  duties  and  fixing  their  compensation. 

A.  B.  543.  Prendergast.  To  promote  a  better  condition  of 
music  teaching  and  the  better  protection  of  the  public  against 
misrepresentation  on  the  part  of  those  engaged  in  the  music 
teaching  profession  in  the  State  of  California,  to  provide  for 
and  regulate  the  registration  of  music  teachers,  and  to  provide 
for  the  issuance  of  certificates  of  registration  to  applicants 
presenting  a  sworn  statement  of  their  preparation  and  quali- 
fication to  the  Secretary  of  State. 

A.  B.  571.  Canepa.  To  provide  for  the  appropriation  of 
certain  submerged  lands  lying  along  the  water  front  of  the 
City  and  County  of  San  Francisco  for  aquatic  sports. 

A.  B.  587.  Downing.  Requiring  all  public  work  to  be  done 
under  the  supervision  of  a  superintendent;  prohibiting  con- 
tract work;  and  naming  a  penalty  for  a  violation  of  this  Act, 


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S.  B,  628.  Luce.  Declaring  kelp  beds  to  be  the  property 
of  the  State  of  California  and  providing  for  the  control  and 
leasing   of   said   beds. 

S.  B.  738.  Duncan  (by  request).  Amending  Section  38  of 
Subdivision  25  of  Act  837  of  the  General  Laws  of  the  State 
of  California,  relating  to  a  uniform  system  of  county  and  town- 
ship  government. 

A.  B.  707.  Gebhart.  Recognizing  and  establishing  that  the 
unpaid  expenses  of  the  convention  which  framed  the  Consti- 
tution of  the  State  of  California,  including  the  unpaid  per 
diem  of  the  delegates  to  such  convention  for  the  full  term 
thereof,  are  obligations  against  the  State,  providing  that 
suits  may  be  brought  against  the  State  to  determine  by 
judgment  the  amount  and  ownership  of  claims  for  such  un- 
paid  expenses  and  per  diem. 

A.  B.  722.  Canepa.  To  provide  for  the  establishment  of  pas- 
senger service  upon  the  State  railroad  located  on  The  Em- 
barcadero,  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco. 

A.  B.  740.  Kerr.  Relating  to  the  powers'  and  privileges  of 
officers  and  employees  of  State  reformatories  in  arresting 
pupils  who  have  escaped  or  been  rescued  therefrom. 

S.  B.  846.  Finn.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
March  15,  1909,  providing  for  vacations  for  certain  employees 
of   the    State. 

S.  B.  854.  Stuckenbruck.  Authorizing  the  sale  of  certain 
property   belonging   to   the   Stockton   State   Hospital. 

A.  B.  799.  Benton.  Declaring  hedges  to  be  a  private 
nuisance  in  certain  instances  and  providing  for  the  abatement 
thereof. 

A.  B.  890.  Schmitt.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  March  13, 
1909,  to  prevent  the  formation  and  prohibit  the  existence  of 
secret  oath-bound  fraternities  in  the  public  schools,  by  pro- 
hibiting the  existence  of  secret  oath-bound  fraternities  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  all  educational  institutions  supported 
in  whole  or  in  part  by  the  State  of  California  or  which  are 
exempt   from   taxation   within   this   State. 

A.  B.  896.  Gebhart.  To  prevent  the  discrimination  in 
prices  and  to  provide  for  publicity  of  prices  to  dealers  and  to 
the   public. 

S.  B.  873.  Scott.  Relating  to  the  relief  of  soldiers,  sailors 
and  marines. 

S.  B.  879.  Luce  (by  request).  To  provide  for  the  formation 
and  management  of  transportation  districts;  for  acquiring 
rights  of  way  and  transportation  facilities;  for  levying  and 
collecting  taxes  on  property  in  such  districts;  and  for  the 
issuance  of  transportation  district  bonds  and  the  payment 
thereof. 

S.   B.   890.     Breed.     To  provide   for  the  alteration   of   county 


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boundary  lines  of  old  counties  and  for  the  formation  of  new 
counties,  organizations  and  classifications  thereof,  for  locat- 
ing county  seats,  for  the  election  and  appointment  of  officers 
and  for  the  adjustment  and  the  fulfillment  of  the  rights  and 
obligations  arising  between  such  new  counties,  created  out  of 
other  counties. 

A.   B.    1095.     Anderson.     Identical  with   Ss   B.   890.     Breed. 

S.  B.  927.  Crowley.  Relating  to  the  deposit  of  moneys  and 
assets  held  by  bonded  fiduciaries;  providing  for  agreements 
between  surety  and  fiduciary  as  to  place  of  deposit  of  such 
funds  and  assets. 

A.  B.  989.  Gebhart.  To  create  a  State  purchasing  depart- 
ment, to  define  the  authority,  powers  and  duties  thereof;  to 
provide  for  the  appointment  of  and  to  define  the  authority, 
powers  and  duties  and  to  fix  the  salaries  and  wages  of  the 
officers  and  employees  thereof,  to  provide  funds  for  the  sup- 
port and  expenditures  thereof;  to  provide  for  the  manner  of 
payment  of  obligations  incurred  thereby;  to  create  a  revolving 
fund  therefor;  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of,  to  define  the 
authority,  powers  and  duties  of,  and  to  fix  the  salaries  of  a 
State  purchasing  agent,  an  assistant  State  purchasing  agent, 
and  a  State  testing  engineer;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  of  parts 
of  Acts  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Provides  for  the  appointment  by  the  Governor  of  a  purchas- 
ing agent,  who  shall  be  required  to  buy  all  materials  and  sup- 
plies for  State  departments.  The  salary  of  the  proposed  official 
is  fixed  at  $4000.  There  would  be,  besides  the  agent,  an  assist- 
ant at  $2400,  three  clerks  at  $1800,  two  stenographers  at  $1200 
and  a  testing  engineer  at  $2400. 

A.  B.  1023.  Godsil.  Amending  an  Act  approved  December 
24,  1911,  defining  certain  classes  of  contracts  for  the  exchange 
of  indemnity,  prescribing  regulations  therefor  and  fixing  a 
license  fee,  by  adding  thereto  a  new  section  to  be  numbered 
Section  10,  relating  to  the  contingent  liability  of  parties  to 
such  contracts. 

A.  B.  1033.  Phillips.  Prohibiting  the  sale  or  giving  away  of 
cigarettes  or  cigarette  papers,  and  declaring  such  act  a  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor  more 
than  $100. 

A.  B.  1051.  Judson.  Requiring  the  owner  of  trees  to  prevent 
injury  to  the  property  of  an  adjoining  land  owner  and  granting 
relief  to  the  latter  in  case  such  injury  occurs. 

A.  B.  1077.  Downing.  Requiring  every  packing  house,  mer- 
cantile or  manufacturing  establishment,  work  shop,  or  other 
establishment  where  labor  is  employed,  to  be  heated  so  as  to 
be  comfortable,  and  providing  penalties  for  the  violation  of 
this  Act. 

S.  B.  992.     Owens  (by  request).     Amending  Section  15  of  an 


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Act,   approved  April  1,   1897,   to  establish  a  uniform   system  of 
county  and  township  government. 

A.  B.  1128.  Salisbury.  Regarding  the  publication  of  proceed- 
ings of  boards  of  supervisors. 

A.  B.  1201.  Collins  (by  request).  Relating  to  the  deposit 
of  moneys  and  assets  held  by  bonded  fiduciaries  providing  for 
agreements  between  surety  and  fiduciary  as  to  place  of  deposit 
of  such  funds  and   assets. 

S.  B.  1015.  Cogswell.  Authorizing  and  empowering  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Whittier  State  School  to  transfer, 
exchange  and  convey  any  and  all  water  rights  now  owned 
and    held    by    said    board    for    stock    in    a    corporation. 

S.  B.  1036.  Kehoe.  To  provide  for  the  regulation  of  the 
sale  of  shingles  by  makers,  manufacturers  and  dealers  thereof. 

Shingles  shall  be  sold  by  numerical  count;  four  bundles 
of  random  width  shingles  packed  in  regulation  frames,  20 
inches  in  width,  twenty-five  courses  at  each  end,  shall  con- 
stitute a  thousand;  openings  in  bundles  shall  not  average  more 
than  iy2  inches  to  the  course,  and  a  variation  of  1  inch  in 
length  shall  be  allowed  in  10  per  cent  of  shingles  in  a  bundle. 

S.  B.  1084.  Colin.  To  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a  State 
Capitol  Planning  Commission  to  formulate  plans  for  the  Capitol 
City  of  the  State  and  to  confer  with  the  City  Planning  Com- 
mission of  the  State   Capitol  City. 

Commission  to  consist  of  the  Governor,  State  Librarian  and 
three  other  persons  to  be  named  by  the  Governor,  at  least 
one  of  whom  shall  be  a  recognized  expert  in  the  planning  of 
cities  and  towns,  the  appointive  members  to  serve  without  pay. 

A.   B.   1255.      Chenoweth.     Identical  with   S.   B.    1084.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  1093.  King.  Relating  to  the  conducting  of  a  company 
store  by  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in  doing 
public   work. 

Prohibits  the  conducting  of  such  store  if,  at  the  time,  there 
be  any  store  selling  supplies  within  two  miles  of  the  place 
where  such  contract  is  being  executed;  makes  violation  a 
misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  not  to  exceed  $500  or  by 
imprisonment   not   to   exceed   six   months,    or   both. 

A.  B.  930.  Brown,  H.  W.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act, 
approved  May  28,  1913,  in  relation  to  fences,  and  other  struc- 
tures  erected   to   annoy,    and   for   the   abatement   of   nuisances. 

S.   B.   1110.      Flint.     Amending   Section   1   of  an  Act  approved 
May  28,  1913,  in  relation  to  fences,  and  other  structures  erected 
to  annoy,  and  for  the  abatement  of  nuisances, 
making  an  appropriation  for  such  purpose. 

S.  B.  1131.  Anderson.  Providing  for  the  establishment  and 
conduct  of  a  State  Land  Information  Bureau  as  a  department 
of  the  College  of  Agriculture  of  the  University  of  California; 
prescribing  the  powers  and  duties  of  said  bureau,  and  appro- 
priating $25,000  therefor. 


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A.  B.  1266.     Encell.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1131.     Anderson. 

S.  B.  1116.  Breed.  To  provide  for  the  return  to  the  owners 
thereof  of  any  funds  paid  into  the  State  Treasury  by  any  re- 
ceiver in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  Section  570  of  the 
Code  of  Civil  Procedure;  prescribing  the  procedure  relative 
thereto;   and   making  an   appropriation   therefor. 

A.  B.  1376.     Wright,  H.  W.     Identical  with  S.  B.   1116.     Breed 

S.  B.  1133.  Duncan.  To  permit  three  or  more  counties 
adjoining  each  other  to  appropriate  from  the  general  fund 
of  the  county  a  sum  not  exceeding  $1000,  by  each  county,  to 
be  used  in  connection  with  an.  equal  sum  from  each  of  the 
other  two  counties  in  causing  a  survey  to  be  made  of  a  pro- 
posed highway  in  or  through  one  or  more  of  said  counties. 

S.  B.  1139.  Breed.  To  provide  for  the  payment  of  awards 
of  court,  or  judgments,  rendered  in  conformity  with  the 
provisions  of  Section  1272  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  and 
appropriating   $15,000    therefor. 

A.  B.   1375.     Wright,  T.   M.     Identical  with  S.    B.   1139.      Breed. 

S.  B.  1115.  Beban.  To  create  a  commission  for  the  pur- 
pose of  making  a  survey  of  local  historical  material  in  the 
State  of  California;  defining  the  powers  and  duties  of  said 
commission;   and   appropriating   $10,000   therefor. 

Creates  a  commission  of  three  persons  for  purpose,  to  be 
appointed  by  Governor,  to  serve  without  compensation,  one 
member  to  be  nominated  by  regents  of  University  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  one  by  board  of  officers  N.   S.   G.  W. 

A.   B.   1372.     Bruck.     Identical  with   S.   B.   1145.     Beban. 

A.  B.  1268.  Encell.  Prohibiting  the  exposure  or  exhibition 
of  deformed  or  diseased  human  beings  or  parts  thereof,  or  the 
exposure  or  exhibition  of  facsimile  or  purporting  to  be  fac- 
simile thereof,  by  picture,  model,  cast,  mold,  chart,  pamphlet, 
card  or  any  form  or  representation  of  sucn  diseased  human 
bodies  or  parts  thereof,  which  would  be  indecent  in  the  case 
of  a  living  person,  without  a  permit  from  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  save  and  except  for  scientific  and  educational  purposes 
before  members  of  the  medical  profession  or  practitioners  of 
any  system  or  mode  of  treating  the  sick  or  afflicted  or  before 
students  in  the  actual  prosecution  of  their  studies  in  schools, 
hospitals  or  colleges. 

A.  B.  1345.  Ryan.  Providing  for  the  acceptance  of  the  U. 
S.  Ship  Portsmouth  by  the  State  of  California  from  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States  and  providing  for  repairs  for 
said  ship  and  for  the  care  and  preservation  of  the  same,  and 
appropriating  $50,000  therefor. 

S.   B.   1159.     Finn.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1345.     Ryan. 

A.  B.  1371.  Gelder.  Prohibiting  the  use  of  dining  cars  as 
sleeping   quarters. 

A.  B.   1448.     S'pengler.     To  prevent  any  peace  officer  against 


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whom  there  is  an  unpaid  judgment  rendered  in  a  suit  for  false 
imprisonment   from   holding  any  position  as  peace  officer. 

A.  B.  1450.  Downing.  To  make  compensation  to  persons 
arrested  but  not  convicted,  at  the  rate  of  $2  a  day  for  each 
day  held  in  confinement,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  general  fund 
of  the  county. 

A.  B.  1466.  Wishard  (by  request).  Concerning  actions  for 
libel  and  slander,  and  repealing  an  Act  approved  March  23, 
1892. 

Provides  that  if  plaintiff  prevails  he  shall  be  allowed  as  costs 
$100  counsel  fees  in  addition  to  other  costs:  if  action  dismissed 
or  defendant  prevails,  he  shall  be  allowed  $100  counsel  fees 
in  addition  to  other  costs. 

S.  B.  1013.  Luce.  Transferring  $5837.69  from  the  disputed 
title  to  lands  on  San  Diego  Bay  fund  to  the  general  fund  of 
the   State  of  California. 

MOTOR     VEHICLES. 

A.  B.  284.  Mouser.  Regulating  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere  to  provide 
for  the  registration  and  identification  of  vehicles  and  for  the 
payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for  the 
licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  certain  vehicles  upon  the  public 
highways,  and  to  prohibit  other  persons  from  causing  or 
knowingly  permitting  such  operation;  to  prohibit  the  possession 
or  use  of  a  vehicle  without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof, 
and  to  prohibit  the  offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain  persons 
of  any  bonus  or  discount  or  other  consideration  for  the  pur- 
chase of  supplies  or  parts  for  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair 
done  thereon;  to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions 
of  this  Act  and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and 
forfeitures  imposed  thereon;  to  limit  the  power  of  local  author- 
ities to  enact  or  maintain  ordinances,  rules  or  regulations  in 
regard  to  matters  embraced  within  the  provisionss  of  this 
act;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  registration  and  license 
fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected  hereunder;  to  provide  for 
carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act  and  to  make  an  appro- 
priation, and  to  create  a  revolving  fund  therefor;  and  to  repeal 
all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either  in  conformity  or  in  conflict 
with   this  Act. 

This  measure  reduces  the  fees  for  autoists  and  provides 
for  the  registration  of  all  vehicles  and  the  payment  of  a 
license  fee  of  $2  for  a  one-horse  vehicle  and  $5  for  one  of 
two  or  more   horses. 

A.  B.  798.  Mouser.  To  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide 
for    the    registration   and    identification    of   motor   vehicles   and 


258  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

for  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for 
the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  high- 
ways; to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the 
offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or 
discount  or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies 
or  parts  for  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done  there- 
on; to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of  this 
Act,  and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  forfeit- 
ures imposed  thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  regis- 
tration and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected  here- 
under; to  provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act 
and  to  make  an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving- 
fund  therefor;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either 
in  conformity  or  in  conflict  with   this  Act. 

Representatives  of  foreign  powers,  officers  of  the  United 
States,  Sheriffs  and  police  officers  are  exempt  from  paying 
tin-    State    license    fees. 

The  horsepower  is  computed  by  the  California  method,  and 
the  license  is  figured  ftt  a  flat  rate  of  35  cents  per  horsepower, 
but  in  no  case  shall  the  minimum  be  counted  at  less  than  20 
horsepower. 

Reductions  from  $50  to  $25  and  from  $10  to  $2  are  given 
dealers   for  five   number  plates  and   those  in   excess   of  five. 

Lights  must  be  carried  by  all  vehicles  except  those  pro- 
pelled  by  a   pedestrian. 

The  bill  also  contains  the  provision  to  allow  offenders  to 
go  free  on  promise,  and  makes  a  violation  of  the  promise  a 
misdemeanor.  An  appeal  to  the  Superior  Court  is  provided 
against  the  suspension  of  an  auto  license.  In  case  of  arrest 
two  times  within  sixty  days  in  any  calendar  year  for  viola- 
tions by  driving  an  auto  while  intoxicated,  and  racing  on  the 
public-  highways  without  permission,  the  motorist  shall  have 
his  license  revoked  and  he  shall  remain  suspended  from  re- 
ceiving  another  license    for   six   months. 

Counties  shall  receive  half  of  the  net  proceeds  from  the 
licenses  and  the  money  is  to  be  used  as  at  present.  Cities 
shall  have  the  right  to  keep  the  moneys  secured  on  fines  for 
violations. 

S.  B.  814.  Cogswell.  To  provide  for  the  licensing  of  motor 
vehicles  engaged  in  the  carrying  of  passengers  for  hire  upon 
the  public  highways  in  the  State  of  California. 

Introduced  in  blank;  license  fees  not  specified. 

S.  B.  893.  Breed.  To  prescribe  a  formula  by  which  alone 
the  horsepower  of  any  automobile  or  motor  vehicle  must  be 
determined   for  purposes   of  registration. 

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adopted  by  associations  of  licensed  automobile  manufacturers. 

S.  B.  2.  Beban.  Amending  Section  1,  Subdivision  1,  and 
Section  5,  Subdivisions  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5  of  an  act  to  regulate 
the  operation  of  motor  vehicles  on  public  highways,  etc.,  ap- 
proved March  22,  1905,  amended  March  23,  1907,  and  adding  a 
new    subdivision    thereto    to    be    numbered    Subdivision    6. 

Relates  to  examination  of  chauffeurs  by  a  board  of  exam- 
iners; no  chauffeur  shall  be  under  20  years  old,  and  every 
applicant  must  send  his  photograph  to  the  Secretary  of  State. 
Chauffeurs'   licenses   are   raised   to    $5    from   $2. 

S.  B.  792.  Beban.  Amending  Sections  1  and  24  of  an  Act, 
approved  May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide 
for  the  registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and 
for  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for 
the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  high- 
ways; to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the 
offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or 
discount  or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies 
or  parts,  for  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done 
thereon;  to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of 
this  Act,  and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  for- 
feitures imposed  thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  or 
registration  and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected 
hereunder;  to  provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act 
and  to  make  an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving  fund 
therefor;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either  in 
conformity  or  in   conflict   with   this   Act. 

S.  B.  41.  Birdsall.  Amending  Sections  3,  7,  8,  9,  10,  13,  22, 
and  35  of  the  Motor  Vehicle  Act,  approved  May  31,  1913,  re- 
lating to  the  use  and  operation  of  motor  vehicles  on  the 
public  highways  and   elsewhere. 

A.  B.  409/  Collins.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act  to  regu- 
late the  use  and  operation  of  vehicles  upon  the  public  highways 
and  elsewhere;  to  provide  for  the  registration  and  identifica- 
tion of  motor  vehicles  and  for  the  payment  of  registration  fees 
therefor;  to  provide  for  the  licensing  of  persons  operating 
motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit  certain  persons  from  operating 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways;  to  prohibit  the  possession 
or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle  without  the  consent  of  the  owner 
thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the  offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain 
persons  of  any  bonus  or  discount  or  other  consideration  for  the 
purchase  of  supplies  or  parts  of  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work 
or  repair  done  thereon;  to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of 
provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of 
fines  and   forfeitures  imposed   thereon;   to   provide   for  the  dis- 


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position  of  registration  and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures 
collected  hereunder;  to  provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects 
of  this  Act  and  to  make  an  appropriation  and  to  create  a 
revolving  fund  therefor;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts 
either  in  conformity  or  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  relating  to  the 
issuance  of  seals  and  number  plates,  and  providing  that  same 
shall  be  made  in  California. 

A,  B.  23.  Schmitt.  Amending  Section  7  of  an  Act  approved 
May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of  vehicles 
upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide  for  the 
registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and  for  the 
payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for  the 
licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  high- 
ways; to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the 
offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or 
discount  or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies 
or  parts  for  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done  thereon; 
to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of  this  Act, 
and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  forfeitures  im- 
posed thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  "registration 
and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected  hereunder;  to 
provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act  and  to  make 
an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving  fund  therefor;  and 
to  repeal  air  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either  in  conformity  or  in 
conflict  with  this  Act,  fixing  a  new  schedule  of  fees  for  motor 
vehicles. 

A.  B.  584.  Arnerich.  Amending  Sections  7  and  8  of  the 
Act,   approved  May  31,   1913,    "Motor  Vehicle  Act". 

Bases  the  tax  on  weight  instead  of  horsepower,  an  the  fol- 
lowing basis:  Up  to  2,500  the  tax  is  $5;  2,500  to  3,500,  $10; 
3,500  to  4,500,   $15;   4,500  to  5,500,   $20,  all  others  $25. 

A.  B,  2.  Ashley.  Amending  Sections  7,  13,  23  and  35  of  an 
Act  approved  May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation 
of  vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  pro- 
vide for  the  registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles 
and  for.  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide 
for  the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  pro- 
hibit certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public 
highways. 

Provides  (Sec.  7)  a  new  schedule  of  fees;  requires  (Sec.  13, 
Subd.  C  [new])  the  display  of  visible  lights  on  all  vehicles 
other  than  automobiles  and  motorcycles,  while  in  use  upon 
any  public  highway,  from  a  half  hour  after  sunset  to  a  half 
hour  before  sunrise,  and  (Subd.  D  [new])  the  display  of  visible 
lights  during  the  same  period  on  all  vehicles  in  or  upon  any 
public  highway,   but   not  in   use;    requiring   (Sec.    20,    Subd.    K) 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  2M 

that  in  passing  any  railroad,  interurban  or  street  car,  vehicles 
shall  pass  to  the  right,  that  due  care  must  be  exercised  for 
the  safety  of  persons  alighting  therefrom,  to  the  extent  of 
stopping  such  vehicle,  if  necessary,  or  if  required  to  do  so  by 
ordinance  or  by  any  traffic  officer;  and  providing  (Sec.  35)  for 
the  return  of  all  net  receipts  to  those  counties  in  which  im- 
proved highways  have  been  constructed  under  county  bond 
issues  and  in  which  less  than  one-half  (or  in  which  none)  of 
the  State  highways  contemplated  by  the  State  Highway  Act 
have   been   constructed. 

S.  B.  492.  Birdsall.  Adding  Section  7a  (new)  to  an  Ad 
a.pproved  May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide 
for  the  registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and 
for  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for 
the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  high- 
ways; to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the 
offer  to  and  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus 
or  discount  or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies 
or  parts  lor  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done 
thereon;  to  provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of 
this  Act,  and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  for- 
feitures imposed  thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of 
registration  and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected 
hereunder;  to  provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this 
Act  and  to  make  an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving 
fund  therefor;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either 
in  conformity  or  in  conflict  with  this  Act,  relating  to  the  fees 
to  be   collected   for   the   registration   of   motor  vehicles. 

Applies  particularly  to  motor  trucks  and  provides  for  reg- 
istration of  every  motor  vehicle,  equipped  with  solid  tires 
other  than  traction  engines,  weighing  under  4,000  pounds,  $5, 
in  addition  to  the  fees  provided  for  the  horsepower  rating; 
for  every  vehicle  weighing  over  4,000  pounds*  and  less  than 
6,000  pounds,  $10,  in  addition  to  the  fees  provided  for  horse- 
power rating;  for  every  vehicle  weighing  over  6,000  pounds, 
$15,    in   addition    to    the    fees    for    horsepower    rating. 

A.  B.  800.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  8  of  the  "Motor 
Vehicle  Act",  approved  May  31,  1913,  relating  to  transfer  of 
ownership. 

A.  B.  410.  Chenoweth.  Requiring  horsedrawn  vehicles,  and 
all  other  vehicles  propelled  by  muscular  power  to  be  equipped 
with  suitable  lights  to  be  shown  between  sunset  and  sunrise, 
and  to  provide  penalties  for  the  violation  of  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

S.  B.  714.     Stuckenbruck.     Regulating  the  use,  speed,  moving 


262'  PENDING    LEGISLATION;   1315: 

or  operating  of  vehicles  and  other  subjects  and  contrivances 
over  and  upon  the  highways  and  bridges  of  the  State  and  fixing 
the  responsibility  for  injury  to  highways  and  bridges  thereby, 
prescribing  the  procedure  for  the  issuance  of  permits  relating 
thereto  by  the  appropriate  public  officers,  and  fixing  the  penalty 
for  the  violations  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  744.  Scott,  F.  C.  (by  request).  Identical  with  S,  B.  714. 
Stuckenbrucfk. 

S.  B.  878.  Luce.  Regulating  the  use,  speed,  moving  or  oper- 
ating of  vehicles  and  other  objects  and  contrivances  over  and 
upon  the  highways  and  bridges  of  the  State  and  fixing  the 
responsibility  for  injury  to  highways  and  bridges  thereby,  pre- 
scribing the  procedure  for  the  issuance  of  permits  relating 
thereto  by  the  appropriate  public  officers,  and  fixing  the 
penalty  for  the  violation  of  the  provisions  of   this   Act. 

A.  B.  534.  Sharkey.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Acf,  ap- 
proved May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide 
for  the  registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and 
for  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for 
the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  public  highways; 
to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle  without 
the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the  offer 
or  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or  discount 
or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies  or  parts 
for  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done  thereon;  to 
provide  penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of  this  Act,  and 
to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  forfeitures  imposed 
thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  registration  and 
license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected  hereunder;  to 
provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act  and  to  make 
an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving  fund  therefor;  and 
to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either  in  conformity  or  in 
conflict    with    this    Act. 

S.  B.  502.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  35  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide 
for  the  registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and 
for  the  payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for 
the  licensing  of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit 
certain  persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  high- 
ways; to  prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the 
offer  to  or  acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or  dis-* 
count  or  other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies  or 
parts  for  motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done  thereon; 
to   provide   penalties   for   violations   of  provisions    of    this*   Act, 


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and  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  forfeitures  im- 
posed thereon;  to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  registration 
and  license  fees,  fines  and  forfeitures  collected  hereunder; 
to  provide  for  carrying  out  the  objects  of  this  Act  and  to 
make  an  appropriation  and  to  create  a  revolving  fund  there- 
for; and  to  repeal  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  either  in  con- 
formity or  in  conflict  with  this  Act. 

S.  B.  285.  Carr.  Amending  Section  36  of  an  Act  approved 
May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of  vehicles 
upon  the  public  highways  and  elsewhere;  to  provide  for  the 
registration  and  identification  of  motor  vehicles  and  for  the 
payment  of  registration  fees  therefor;  to  provide  for  the  licens- 
ing of  persons  operating  motor  vehicles;  to  prohibit  certain 
persons  from  operating  vehicles  upon  the  public  highways;  to 
prohibit  the  possession  or  use  of  a  motor  vehicle  without  the 
consent  of  the  owner  thereof,  and  to  prohibit  the  offer  to  or 
acceptance  by  certain  persons  of  any  bonus  or  discount  or 
other  consideration  for  the  purchase  of  supplies  or  parts  for 
motor  vehicles,  or  for  work  or  repair  done  thereon;  to  provide 
penalties  for  violations  of  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  provide 
for  the  disposition  of  fines  and  forfeitures  imposed  thereon; 
to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  registration  and  license  fees, 
fines  and  forfeitures  collected  hereunder;  to  provide  for  carry- 
ing out  the  objects  of  this  Act  and  to  make  an  appropriation 
and  to  create  a  revolving  fund  therefor;  and  to  repeal  all  Acts 
or  parts  of  Acts  either  in  conformity  or  in  conflict  with  this 
Act,  relating  to  disposition  of  fines. 

A.  B.  1155.  Gebhart.  Amending  Section  36  of  an  Act, 
approved  May  31,  1913,  to  regulate  the  use  and  operation  of 
vehicles  upon  the  public  highways,  relating  to  disposition  of 
fines. 

S.  B.  1118.  Breed.  To  provide  for  the  repayment  to  such 
persons  as  are  or  may  become  entitled  thereto  of  moneys  by 
them,  or  their  assignors,  paid  to  the  State  of  California  in  con- 
sequence of  illegally  imposed  charges  for  the  registration  of 
motor  vehicles,  or  paid  to  the  State  by  mistake  or  inadver- 
tence in  connection  with  the  registration  of  such  motor  ve- 
hicles, and  thereafter  deposited  in  the  State  Treasury  to  the 
credit  of  the  motor  vehicle  fund  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of 
Chapter  326  of  California  Statutes  of  1913,  approved  May  31, 
1913,  and  known  as  the  "Motor  Vehicle  Act;"  making  an  ap- 
propriation for  such  purpose;  prescribing  certain  duties  with 
respect  thereto;  and  providing  for  the  retention  by  the  State 
of  proportionate  deductions  from  the  moneys  which  would 
otherwise  be  apportioned  to  the  several  counties  under  the 
provisions  of  said  Motor  Vehicle  Act. 

A.  B.   1374.     Mouser.     Identical  with  S.  B.   1118.     Breed. 


26.4.  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

MUNICIPAL     CORPORATIONS. 

(See  Street  Improvements;  Public  Improvements;  Constitu- 
tional Amendments;  Public  Improvements;  Parks  and  Park- 
ways.) 

A.  B.  41.  Brown,  H.  W.  Validating  the  organization  and 
incorporation    of    municipal    corporations. 

S.    B.    228.     Anderson.     Identical   with   A.    B.    41.     Brown. 
S.    B.    1109.      Flint.      To  validate   the   organization   and   incor- 
poration  of  municipal   corporations. 

S.  B.  203.  Kehoe.  Authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness 
by  counties,  cities  and  counties  and  incorporated  cities  and 
towns  for  public  improvements  and  the  acquisition  of  public 
utilities  and  regulating  the  procedure  of  acquiring  the  same. 

A.  B.  276.  Brown,  II.  W.  Authorizing  any  municipal  cor- 
poration, using  the  word  "city"'  in  its  corporate  name,  to 
change  such  word  to  "town"  and  providing  the  procedure 
therefor. 

S,  B.  110S.  Flint.  Identical  with  A.  B.  276.  Brown. 
A.  B.  400.  Salisbury.  Relating  to  municipal  charters  and 
providing  for  cities  having  freeholder  charters  or  charters 
under  the  general  laws  of  the  State  of  California,  to  make  and 
enforce  any  and  all  general  laws  or  regulations  in  respect  to 
municipal  affairs,  and  to  elect  to  proceed  under  such  general 
laws  in  lieu  of  the  charter  provisions. 

S.  B.  195.  Stuckenbruck.  Authorizing  municipal  corpora- 
tions to  permit  other  municipal  corporations  and  counties  to 
construct  and  maintain  sewers,  water  mains  and  other  con- 
duits, and  pole  lines  for  the  transmission  of  electricity  and 
electric  energy  in,  through,  over,  along  and  across  its  streets 
and  public  places,  and  to  construct  and  maintain  sewers, 
water  mains  and  other  conduits  and  pole  lines  for  the  trans- 
mission of  electricity  and  electric  energy  for  their  joint  benefit 
and  at  their  joint  expense,  through,  over,  along  and  across 
such  streets  and  public  places,  and  to  make  and  enter  into 
contracts  for  such  purposes,  prescribing  a  method  for  com- 
pelling such  use  of  such  streets  and  public  places,  and  repeal- 
ing an  Act,  approved  March  22,  1909,  authorizing  municipal 
corporations  to  permit  other  municipal  corporations  to  con- 
struct and  maintain  sewers,  water  mains,  and  other  conduits 
therein,  also  to  construct  and  maintain  sewers,  water  mains, 
and  other  conduits  for  their  joint  benefit,  and  at  their  joint 
expense,  and  to  make  and  enter  into  contracts  for  said  pur- 
poses. 

S.  B.  123.  Carr.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  approved 
March  22,  1909,  authorizing  municipal  corporations  to  permit 
other  municipal  corporations  to  construct  and  maintain  sewers, 
water  mains,  and  other  conduits  therein;  also  to  construct 
and    maintain    sewers,    water    mains,    and    other    conduits    for 


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their  joint  benefit,  and  at  their  joint  expense,  and  to  make 
and  enter  into  contracts  for  said  purposes,  as  amended,  so  as 
to  authorize  the  use  of  highways  for  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  sewers. 

S.  B.  517.  Crowley.  Granting  municipal  corporations  of  the 
State  of  California  the  right  to  construct,  operate  and  maintain 
water  and  gas  pipes,  mains  or  conduits,  electric  light  and 
electric  power  lines,  and  telephone  and  telegraph  lines,  along 
or  upon  any  road,  street,  alley,  avenue  or  highway,  or  across 
any  railway,  canal,  ditch  or  flume,  and  repealing  an  Act  ap- 
proved April  10,   1911.   for  the  same  purpose. 

A.  B.  662.  Ryan.  Identical  with  S.  B.  517.  Crowley. 
S.  B.  564.  Benedict.  Authorizing  any  municipality  to  incur 
indebtedness  by  the  issuance  and  sale  of  bonds  for  the  pur- 
pose of  investing  the  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale  thereof 
in  other  bonds,  evidences  of  debt  or  liens  issued  for  public 
improvements   in   said   municipality. 

A.    B.   1.20.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.    564.     Benedict. 
S.   B.   565.     Benedict.     Empowering  municipal  corporations  to 
secure   and   enforce  payment   of  rates  and   charges   for   water, 
gas  or  electricity  furnished  by  them. 

A.  B.  915.  Benton.  To  regulate  the  making  of  monthly 
reports  of  itemized  receipts  and  expenditures  of  public  moneys 
of  incorporated  cities  in  the  State  of  California  and  to  provide 
for  their  publication. 

A.  B.  924.  Manning.  Authorizing  any  municipality  in  this 
State  to  designate  residence  districts  in  such  municipality 
wheren  only  buildings  for  residences  may  be  erected  and 
maintained,  and  to  prohibit  the  creation  and  maintenance  of 
hotels,  stores,  factories,  warehouses,  undertaking  or  embalm- 
ing establishments,  dry-cleaning  plants,  public  garages,  stables, 
tenement  houses  or  apartment  houses  in  such  designated  resi- 
dence districts. 

S.  B.  928.     Carr.     Identical  with  A.  B.  924.     Manning. 
A.    B.    1125.      Wills.      To   authorize   municipal   corporations   of 
the  sixth  class  to  abandon  parks  and  sell  and  convey  the  land 
embraced    therein,    and    reinvest    the    proceeds    from    the    sale 
thereof. 

A.  B.  637.  Burke.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  authoriz- 
ing the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns,  and  mu- 
nicipal corporations  for  municipal  improvements,  and  regulat- 
ing the  acquisition,  construction  or  completion  thereof,  which 
became  a  law  under  constitutional  provision  without  Gov- 
ernor's  approval    February   25th,    1909,    as    amended. 

A.  B.  189.  Manning.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  author- 
izing the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns,  and  mu- 
nicipal corporations  for  municipal  improvements,  and  regulat- 
ing the  acquisition,-  construction  or  completion-  thereof,  "which 


266  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

became  a  law  under  the  constitutional  provisions  without  the 
Governor's  approval  February  25,  1901,  as  subsequently 
amended,  relating  to  the  proceedings  for  the  calling  of  an 
election   therefor. 

A.  B.  1219.  Fish.  Amending  Sections  2  and  3  of  an  Act 
authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns  and 
municipal  corporations  for  municipal  improvements,  and  regu- 
lating the  acquisition,  construction  or  completion  thereof; 
which  became  a  law  under  the  constitutional  provision  without 
the  Governor's  approval,  February  25,  1901,  as  subsequently 
amended,  relating  to  the  proceedings  for  the  calling  of  an 
election  therefor  and  by  adding  a  new  section  thereto  to  be 
numbered  Section  12%,  relating  to  the  consolidation  of  elections. 

S.  B.  1026.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  5.  7,  10,  11  and 
14  of  an  Act,  approved  June  11,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  con- 
solidation of  municipal  corporations,  and  by  adding  a  new 
section  thereto,  to  be  numbered  Section  13%,  relating  to  cer- 
tain  non-contiguous   municipal   corporations. 

A.   B.  1247.     McKnight.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1026.     Benedict. 

8.  B.  1057.  Breed.  Amending  Section  4  of  an  Act  authoriz- 
ing the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns  and  munlc 
ipal  corporations  for  municipal  improvements  and  regulating 
the  acquisition,  construction  or  completion  thereof,  which 
became  a  law  under  constitutional  provision  without  the  Gov- 
ernor's  approval   February   15,    1901. 

Excludes  from  15  per  cent  debt  limit  indebtedness  incurred 
in  purchase  or  original  construction  of  public  works  for  sup- 
plying inhabitants  with  light,  water,  power,  heat,  transporta- 
tion,  telephone   service   or  other   means   of   communication. 

S.  B.  1058.  Breed.  Amending  Section  5  of  an  Act  approved 
March  19,  1889,  authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by 
cities,  towns  and  municipal  corporations,  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  this  State,  for  the  construction  of  waterworks, 
sewers,  and  all  necessary  public  improvements,  or  for  any  pur* 
pose  whatever,  and  to  repeal  the  Act  approved  March  9,  1885, 
entitled  "An  Act  to  authorize  municipal  corporations  of  the 
fifth  class,  containing  more  than  3000  and  less  than  10,000  in- 
habitants, to  obtain  waterworks,"  also  to  repeal  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  15,  1887,  entitled  "An  Act  authorizing  the  in- 
curring of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns  and  municipal  cor- 
porations,   incorporated   under   the   laws   of   this   State." 

Excludes  from  15  per  cent  debt  limit  indebtedness  incurred 
in  purchase  or  original  construction  of  public  works  for  sup- 
plying inhabitants  with  light,  water,  power,  heat,  transporta- 
tion,   telephone   service   or   other   means   of   communication. 

S.  B.  1170.  Butler.  Amending  Sections  2  and  3  of  an  Act 
authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns  and 
municipal  corporations  for  municipal  improvements,  and  regu- 


P£NDIN£  .J^iSI&LAlTlQN,  0.915.  267 

la  ting  the  acquisition,  construction  &r  completion  thereof; 
which  became  a  law  under  the  constitutional  provision  with- 
out the  Governor's  approval,  February  25,  1901,  as  subse- 
quently amended,  relating  to  the  proceedings  for  the  calling 
of  an  election  therefor  and  by  adding  a  new  section  thereto 
to  be  numbered  Section  12%,  relating  to  the  consolidation  of 
elections. 

B.  B.  1150.  Jones.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act  approved 
March  26,  1895,  to  provide  for  the  disincorporation  of  munic- 
ipal corporations  of  the  sixth  class,  by  providing  for  the  taking 
over  and  administering  by  counties  of  certain  functions,  powers 
and  property  previously  administered  by  municipalities  that 
have  disincorporated. 

S.  B.  irjS.  Benedict.  Authorizing  municipal  corporations 
operating  woiks  for  distributing  and  supplying  water,  gas  or 
electricity  to  their  inhabitants  to  provide  for  levying  a-rrd  col- 
lecting an  annual  assessment  against  property  abutting  on 
such  works  and  -which  is  or  may  be  served  therefrom,  for  the 
purpose  of  operating,  maintaining  and  improving  such  works. 
A.  B.  1283.  McDonald,  J.  J.  (by  request).  Authorizing  mu- 
nicipalities to  declare  noxious  or  dangerous  weeds  growing 
upon  the  streets  or  sidewalks,  or  upon  private  property  within 
municipalities,  to  be  a  public  nuisance,  creating  a  lien  upon 
the  property  fronting  upon  such  streets  or  sidewalks  or  upon 
which  such  nuisance  exists  for  the  cost  of  abating  the  same. 
S.  B.  1188.  Thompson.  Identical  with  A.  B.  1283.  McDonald. 
S.  B.  908.  Benedict.  Authorizing  any  city,  city  and  county, 
county,  town,  municipality  or  other  political  subdivision  to 
acquire  certain  liens  on  property  offered  for  sale  for  the  non- 
payment  of  certain  assessments. 

A.  B.  1455.  McKnight  and  Spengler.  Authorizing  any  city, 
city  and  county,  county,  town,  municipality  or  other  political 
subdivision  to  acquire  certain  liens  or  property  offered  for 
sale  for  the  non-payment  of  certain  assessments. 

A.  B.  445.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved February  23,  1907,  relating  to  senior  rights  of  members 
of  paid  police  departments  of  counties,  cities  and  counties, 
cities  or  towns. 

A.  B.  825.  '•  Chamberlin.  To  regulate  the  salaries  of  certain 
officers  in  the  police  departments  within  municipalities  of  the 
first  and  second  class  in  the  State  of  California. 

Fixes  salary  of  captains  of  police  at  $2400  per  annum  each; 
lieutenants,  $1920;  sergeants,  $1680;  patrolmen,  $1464;  patrol- 
men assigned   to  detective  service,   $1740. 

A/^B.  458.  Manning  (by  request).  To  provide  for  the  estab- 
lishment, government,  and  maintenance  of  city  planning  com- 
missions within  municipalities,  and  prescribing  their  powers 
and  duties. 


268  PENDING.  LEGISLATION,  1915. 

When  one-fourth  of  the  electors  request  by  petition  the 
creation  of  a  city  planning  commission,  the  legislative  body 
of  any  incorporated  city  or  town  must  create  one,  consisting 
of  five  members,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Mayor,  one  of  whom 
shall  be  a  member  of  the  legislative  body,  the  City  Attorney 
and  City  Engineer  to  be  members  ex-officio;  non-residents 
shall  be  eligible  to  appointment.  City  planning  commissions 
shall  have. -power  to  provide  for  regulating  the  future  growth, 
development  and  beautification  of  the  municipality,  and  to 
provide  plans  and  make  recommendations  therefor,  and  to 
approve  or  disapprove  of  maps,  plats  or  subdivisions  of  lands 
laid  out  in  building  lots. 

S.    B.    610.      Carr.     Identical   with  A.    B.    458.     Manning. 
,     ,  S.  B.  813.     Finn.     To  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  sub- 
divisions 6  and  7  of.  Section  Sy2  of  Article  XI  of  the  Constitution 
of   the   State   of  California   as   the  said   section   of   said   article 
was  amended  on   the  third  day  of  November  in   the  year  one 
thousand   nine  hundred  and  fourteen;   and  also  to  provide   for 
the  alteration  of  the  boundaries  of  and  for  the  annexation  of 
territory    to    consolidated    cities    and    counties,    for    the    incor- 
poration  of.  such   annexed   territory   in  and  as  a  part  thereof, 
and.for  the  government  of  such  annexed  territory  as  an  integ- 
ral part  of  such  cities  and  counties. 
A.  B.  920.     Ryan.     Identical  with  S.  B.  813.     Finn. 
S.   B.   1169.     Butler.     Enabling  any  city  or  town  maintaining 
a   free  public   swimming   bath   to   take   water   therefor   from   a 
public   utility   water   ditch,    and  after  such   use   to   return   the 
.  water   to    the   ditch,    provided   the   latter   is   not   used   for   do- 
mestic or  municipal  purposes. 

A.  B.  1388.  Chenoweth  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B. 
1169.      Butler. 

A.  B.  1267.  Encell.  To  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy 
of  dwelling  houses  in  incorporated  and  unincorporated  towns, 
cities,  cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the 
.violation  thereof. 

S-.:  B.  1138;  Anderson.  Identical  with  A.  B.  1267.  Encell. 
S,  B.  1025.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  5,  6,  7  and.  11, 
approved  June  11,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  alteration  of  the 
boundaries  of  and  for  the  annexation  of  territory  to  municipal 
corporations,  for  the  incorporation  of  such  annexed  territory 
in  and  as  a  part  thereof,  and  for  the  districting,  government 
and  municipal  control  of  such  annexed  territory. 

A.:B.  1246.  McKnight.  Identical  with  S.  B.  1015.  Benedict, 
A.  B.  803.  Encell.  Adding  Section  iy2  (new)  to  an  Act 
entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  alteration  of  the  boundar- 
ies of,  and  for  the  annexation  of,  territory  to  incorporated 
towns  and  cities, -and  for  the  incorporation  of  such  annexed 
territory  in  and  as   a  part  of   such  municipality,   and-  for   the 


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districting,  government  and  municipal  control  of  annexed  ter- 
ritory", etc.,  relating  to  the  levying  of  taxes  for  other  than 
school  purposes. 

S.  B.  607.  Carr.  Adding  Section  10%  (new)  to  an  Act 
authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities,  towns, 
and  municipal  corporations  for  municipal  improvements,  and 
regulating  the  acquisition,  construction,  or  completion  thereof, 
which  became  a  law  under  constitutional  provision  without 
Governor's  approval,  February  25,  1901,  relating  to  establishing 
the  validity  of  municipal  bonds. 

S.  B.  618.     Anderson.     Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  author- 
izing the   incurring  of  indebtedness   by   cities,    towns   and   mu- 
nicipal  corporations  for  municipal  improvements,   and   regulat- 
ing the  acquisition,   construction  or  completion  thereof,   which 
became   a   law    under    constitutional   provision    without    Gover- 
nor's approval  February  25,   1909,  as  amended: 
.    S.  B.  391.  ;  Lyon. .  Providing. for  a  two-platoon  system  in  the 
fire  .departments  of  cities  having  paid  fire  departments.- 
A.  B.  816.     Phillips.     Identical  with  S.  B.  391.     Lyon. 
A.   B.    981.     Marron.     Providing   for  a  two-platoon   system   in 
the  fire  departments  of  cities  having  paid  fire  departments.; 

A.   B.  .1108.     Marron.     Relating  to  the  qualifications  of  mem- 
bers of  paid  fire  departments  of  cities  or  cities   and   counties. 
Provides  that  every  regular  or  permanent  member  of  a  regu- 
larly organized  paid  fire  department  shall   be   not  less   than   5 
feet  6  inches  in  height  and  weigh  not  less  than  135  pounds. 

S.  B.  635.  Purkitt.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  4,  1881,  as  amended  March  6,  1889,  and  April  21,  1909, 
to  allow  unincorporated  towns  and  villages  to  equip  and  main- 
tain a  fire  department,  and  to  assess  and  collect  taxes  from 
time  to  time  for  such  purpose,  and  to  create  a  board  of  fire 
commissioners. 

A.  B.  552.  Scott.  L.  D.  Amending  an  act,  approved  March 
4,  1881;  amended  March  6,  1889,  to  amend  an  Act  to  allow 
unincorporated  towns  and  villages  to  equip  and  maintain  a 
fire  department,  and  to  assess  and'  collect  taxes  from  time  to 
time  for  such  purpose,  and  to  create  a  board  of  fire  com- 
missioners. 

MUNICIPAL    CORPORATIONS    ACT. 

•  A.  B.  913.  Canepa.  Adding  Section  56a  (new)  to  an  Act, 
approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  in- 
corporation and.  government  of  municipal  corporations,  relating 
to : night  schools  for  aliens. 

A.  Br  1369.  Meek.  Amending  Sections  7.51  and  752b  of  .an 
Act,  approved  March  13, ;1883,  as  amended  February  28yrl901, 
and  April  lOj  1911,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorpora- 
tion,  and  government   of  municipal  corporations. 


270  PENDINO    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

B.  B.  1023.  Anderson,  Amending-  Section  752  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  13,  1S83,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  in- 
corporation and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  re- 
lating to  the  election  and  term  of  office  of  officers  of  cities 
of  the  fifth  class. 

A.  B.  390.  Godsil.  Amending  Sections  752  and  852,  and  re- 
pealing Sections  752b  and  852b  of  an  Act  approved  March  13, 
1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorporation  and  gov- 
ernment of  municipal  corporations. 

S.    B.    6Q6.      Cair.      Identical   with    A.    B.    390.      Godsil. 

8.  B.  1136.  Anderson.  Amending  Section  764  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  13,  1883,  and  as  amended  March  23,  1901,  and 
March  3,  1905,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorporation 
and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  relating  to  the 
powers  of  boards  of  trustees  of  cities  of  the  fifth  class. 

A.  B.  582.  McPherson.  Amending  Section  765  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  in- 
corporation and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  relating 
to    the    enacting    clause    of   ordinances. 

S.    B.   685.     Mott.     Identical  with   A.    B.    582.      McPherson. 

A.  B.  1145.  Edwards,  R.  G.  Amending  Section  777  of  the 
Municipal  Corporations  Act,  relating  to  contracting  for  public 
work  in  cities  of  the  fifth  class. 

S.  B.  1148.  Mott.  Amending  Section  777  of  an  Act  approved 
March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorporation 
and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  relating  to  con- 
tracting for  public  work  in  cities  of  the  fifth  class. 

S.  B.  979.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  789  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incor- 
poration and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  relative  to 
the  duties  of  city  attorney  in  cities  of  the  fifth  class. 

A.  B.  1260.  Rutherford.  Amending  Sections  806,  807  and  808 
of  an  Act,  approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organi- 
zation, incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  corporations, 
relating  to  recorders'   courts  in   cities  of  the  fifth  class. 

S.  B.  77.  King.  Amending  Sections  851  and  852  of  the 
Municipal  Corporations  Act,  relating  to  officers  of  a  munic- 
ipality. 

A.  B.  1186.  Phelps.  Amending  Section  852  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  13,  1883,  providing  for  organization,  incorpora- 
tion and   government   of  municipal   corporations, 

S.  B.  110.  Luce.  Amending  Subdivision  9  of  Section  862  of 
an  Act  approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organiza- 
tion, incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  corporations, 
relative  to  collection  of  property  tax. 

-  S.  B.  619.     Anderson.     Amending  Section  862  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  18,  1883,  as  amended,  to  provide  for  the  organ!- 


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zation,  incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  corpora- 
tions,  relating  to  power  and  duties   of  boards   of  trustees. 

A.  B.  638.  Burke.  Amending  Section  862  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  13,  1883,  as  amended,  to  provide  for  the  organ- 
ization, incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  corpora- 
tions. 

S.   B.   956.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.    B.   638.     Burke. 

A.  B.  1207.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Section  862  of  an 
Act  approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organization, 
incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  corporations,  and 
all    amendments    thereto. 

A.  B.  583.  McPherson.  Amending  Section  863  of  an  Act 
to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorporation  and  government 
of   municipal   corporations. 

S.    B.    686.     Mott.      Identical   with   A.    B.    583.      McPherson. 

A.  B.  459.  Manning  (by  request).  Amending  Section  875  of 
an  Act  approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the  organiza- 
tion, incorporation,  and  government  of  municipal  corporations, 
as  subsequently  amended  relating  to  the  powers  of  the  presi- 
dent and  presidents  pro  tern,  of  the  boards  of  trustees  of 
cities  of  the  sixth  class. 

S.    B.    606.      Carr.      Identical   with   A.    B.    459.      Manning. 

A.  B.  389.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  882  of  an  Act  approved 
March  13,  1S83,  to  provide  for  the  organization,  incorporation 
and  government  of  municipal  corporations. 

A.  B.  1344.  Rutherford.  Amending  Sections  882,  883  and 
884  of  an  Act,  approved  March  13,  1883,  to  provide  for  the 
organization,  incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  cor- 
porations,   relating    to   recorders'    courts. 

A.  B.  1474.  Rutherford.  Amending  Sections  882,  883  and 
884  of  an  Act  approved  March  13,  1883.  to  provide  for  the 
organization,  incorporation  and  government  of  municipal  cor- 
porations, relating  to  recorder's  courts. 

NATIONAL     GUARD. 

(See  also  Political  Code;  Appropriations.) 
S.  B.  267.  Scott.  Amending  an  Act  approved  March  9,  1911, 
authorizing  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  California  to  issue 
licenses  to  bodies  of  men  to  organize,  drill,  and  bear  arms  as 
military  companies  or  organizations,  and  providing  for  their 
control,  by  adding  thereto  two  new  sections  to  be  numbered 
Sections  2  and  3,  providing  for  an  allowance  of  $50  per  month 
for  armory  rent  and  proper  and  necessary  incidental  expenses, 
and  providing  for  such  companies'   means  of  target  practice. 

S.  B.  865.  Scott.  Amending  Sections  2,  3,  4,  5.  6,  7,  8,  9, 
10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15  and  16  of  an  Act  approved  April  5,  1911, 
to  provide  for  the  organization,  control  and  equipment  of 
high    school   cadet   companies,    and    for  the   promotion   of   rifle 


272  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

practice  therein,  and  appropriating  the  sum  of  $5000   therefor. 
A.   B.   1030.     Edwards.     Identical  with  S.  B.   865.     Scott. 

NURSES     AND     NURSING. 

S.  B.  202.  Benson.  Authorizing  county  boards  of  super- 
visors to  employ  visiting  nurses. 

A.  B.  408.     Avey.     Identical  with  S.  B.   202.    Benson. 

S.  B.  821.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  2  and  3  of  an  Act 
approved  June  12,  1913,  to  promote  the  better  education  of 
nurses  and  the  better  care  of  the  sick  in  the  State  of  Califor- 
nia, to  provide  for  and  regulate  the  examination  and  regis- 
tration of  graduate  nurses,  and  to  provide  for  the  issuance  of 
certificates  of  registration  as  registered  nurses  to  qualified 
applicants  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  to  repeal  an  Act 
approved  March  20,  1905,  to  promote  the  better  education  of 
the  practice  of  nursing  the  sick  in  the  State  of  California,  to 
provide  for  the  issuance  of  certificates  of  registration  as  a 
■registered  nurse  to  qualified  applicants  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the  University  of  California,  and  to  provide  pen- 
alties  for   violation   thereof,    relating   to    examinations. 

A.   B.  932.     Mouser.     Identical  with  S.   B.  821.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  895.  Birdsall.  Amending  an  Act  approved  June  12,  1913, 
to  promote  The  better  education  of  nurses  and  the  better  care  of 
the  sick  in  the  State  of  California,  to  provide  for  and  regulate 
the  examination  and  registration  of  graduate  nurses,  and  to 
provide  for  the  issuance  of  certificates  of  registration  as 
registered  nurses  to  qualified  applicants  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  and  to  repeal  an  Act  approved  March  20,  1905,  to 
promote  the  better  education  of  the  practice  of  nursing  the 
sick  in  the  State  of  California,  to  provide  for  the  issuance 
of  certificates  of  registration  as  a  registered  nurse  to  qualified 
applicants  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  to  provide  penalties  for  violation  thereof,  by  add- 
ing a  new  section  to  be  known  as  Section  12,  limiting  the 
hours  of  employment  Of  female  pupil  or  student  nurses  in 
hospitals,  prescribing  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof,  and 
providing  for  the  enforcement  of  the  restrictions  imposed. 

Provides  that  in  last  year  of  course  female  student  nurses, 
when  assigned  as  special  nurses  for  cure  of  sick,  may  work 
for  periods  not  aggregating  more  than  three  months  free  from 
restrictions. 

A.   B.   1111.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.   895.     Birdsall. 

OFFICERS,    PUBLIC. 

A.  B.  383.  Widenmann  (by  request).  Providing  an  alterna- 
tive system  for  the  nomination  and  election  of  officers  of  cities 
of  the-  fifth  and  sixth  class  and:  providing  for  -  the '  preferential 
system -of  voting  at  such  elections.     "•'-•. -  .'  *  "        '  -""•=  "-' 


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OIL     AND    GAS. 

S.  B.  1103.  Chandler.  To  prevent  injury  to  oil,  gas  or 
petroleum  bearing  strata  or  formations  by  the  penetration  or 
infiltration  of  water  therein,  providing  penalties  for  the  vio- 
lation thereof,  and  repealing  an  Act  approved  March  20,  1909, 
to  prevent  injury  to  oil,  gas  or  petroleum  bearing  strata  or 
formations  by   the  penetration  or  infiltration  of  water  therein. 

S.  B.  1104.  Chandler.  An  Act  to  provide  for  the  organiza- 
tion and  government  of  districts  for  the  protection  of  lands 
within  this  State  producing  or  containing  oil  or  gas  from  in- 
jury or  damage  from  the  infiltration  or  intrusion  of  water 
into   the   oil   or  gas-bearing   strata   in    said    lands. 

S.  B.  1146.  Chandler.  Requiring  retail  dealers  in  oils  and 
in  gasoline  and  other  inflammable  fluids  to  display  conspicu- 
ously placards  showing  the  quality  and  price  thereof;  provid- 
ing for  tests  of  such  fluids,  and  prescribing  penalties  for 
violation  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

ORPHANS     AND     INDIGENT     PERSONS. 

(See    also    Children.) 

A.  B.  379.  Kennedy.  Concerning  the  custody,  maintenance 
and  support  of  indigent,  dependent  and  poor  persons,  orphans, 
and  half-orphans,  and  for  the  education  of  such  persons  and 
other  worthy  persons,  under  twenty-one  years  of  age;  au- 
thorizing and  empowering  the  maintenance  of  funds  therefor 
in  the  county  and  State  treasuries,  to  be  derived  from  taxation 
and  private  benefaction  to  be  known  as  a  "Children's  Relief 
Fund"  and  as  a  "Scholarship  Fund,"  making  appropriations 
for  a  campaign  to  secure  private  benefactions,  and  for  the 
disposition  of  "transfer  and  collateral  inheritence  taxes"  there- 
for, authorizing  gifts,  bequests  and  devises  therefor  without 
limitation,  in  trust  or  otherwise,  and  defining  the  powers  and 
duties  of  the  Superior  Court  and  board  of  supervisors  in  re- 
lation to  such  persons  and  such  funds. 

A.  B.  815.  Wishard.  Concerning  the  custody,  maintenance 
And  support  of  indigent,  dependent  and  poor  persons,  orphans 
and  half  orphans,  and  for  the  education  of  such  persons  and 
other  worthy  persons,  under  twenty-one  years  of  age;  fixing 
the  responsibility  of  parents  and  relatives,  stepfathers  and 
fathers   of   illegitimate   persons   therefor,    etc. 

A.  B.  787.  Brown,  H.  W.  Requiring  relatives  to  support 
dependent  poor  persons  who  are  unable  to  earn  a  livelihood 
in  consequence  of  any  bodily  or  mental  infirmity,  or  other 
unavoidable   cause. 

Boards  of  Supervisors  are  empowered  to  order  the  support 
of  such  persons  by  relatives,  it  is  provided  that  children 
shall  first  be  called  upon  to  support 'their  parents  if  the  latter 
are  in  need.     If '  the  person  or  persons  requiring'  aid   have   no 


274  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

children  who  are  capable  of  assisting  them,  then  the  parents 
of  such  persons  shall  be  required  to  give  the  necessary  sup- 
port. If  this  is  impossible,  the  brothers  or  sisters  of  the 
object  of  charity  are  made  liable,  and  as  a  last  resort  the 
grandchildren  of  the  persons  in  question  must  take  care  of 
them.  In  the  event  that  a  person  is  a  pauper  as  a  result  of 
intemperance  or  criminal  tendencies,  the  act  provides  that 
only  the  parents  or  the  children  of  such  a  person  will  be 
required   to   support   them. 

PARKS     AND     PARKWAYS, 

A.  B.  694.  Quinn.  Authorizing  counties  to  acquire,  estab- 
lish and  maintain  public  parks,  and  to  incur  indebtedness  for 
such   purposes   or   improvements. 

B,  B.  205.  Kehoe.  Providing  for  the  establishment  of  State 
parks  in  the  counties  of  California,  providing  for  the  issuance 
of  county  and  of  State  bonds  in  aid  of  the  establishment  of 
such  parks,  and  submission  of  such  bond  issues  to  a  vote, 
providing  a  method  of  acquiring  such  parks  with  or  without 
condemnation  proceedings,  and  providing  for  the  government 
of   such   parks. 

S.  B.  125.  Thompson.  Providing  for  the  planting,  improv- 
ing, care  and  maintenance  of  parkings  and  parkways  in  the 
public  streets,  boulevards  and  highways  of  incorporated  cities. 

A.    B.   143.     Wright.     Identical  with  S.  B.  125.     Thompson. 

A.  B.  1073.  Encell.  To  provide  for  the  acquisition  by 
municipalities  of  land  for  public  park,  public  play  ground  or 
public  library  purposes  by  condemnation,  and  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  assessment  districts  and  the  assessment  of  prop- 
erty  therein   to  pay   the  expenses  of  acquiring  such  land . 

PAROLE     AND     PARDON. 

S.  B.  55.  Finn.  Providing  for  the  discharge  and  restora- 
tion of  citizenship  of  paroled  prisoners   from   State  prisons. 

S.  B.  961.  Thompson.  Creating  an  Advisory  Pardon  Board; 
defining  and  prescribing  the  powers  and  duties  thereof;  and 
making  an  appropriation  therefor. 

Provides  that  all  applications  for  pardons  shall  be  submitted 
to  the  Advisory  Pardon  Board,  to  consist  of  the  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  Attorney- General  and  the  wardens  of  the  two  State 
Prisons.  This  board  shall  meet  at  the  State  Capitol  at  least 
once  every  two  months  and  at  such  other  times  as  may  be 
necessary.  Upon  request  of  the  Governor  the  board  shall  in- 
vestigate and  report  on  all  applications  for  reprieves,  pardons 
and  commutations  and  shall  -make  such  recommendations  to 
the  Governor  as  may  seem  advisable,  and  to  that  end  may 
examine  all  evidence  and  records  and  call  and  examine  wit- 
nesses.    An  appropriation  of  $5000   is  provided. 


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A.  B.  121§.  Fish.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  16,  1913, 
to  establish  a  Board  of  Parole  Commissioners  for  the  parole 
of  and  government  of  paroled  prisoners,  and  repealing  an  Act 
to  amend  an  Act,  approved  March  23,  1893,  to  establish  a 
Board  of  Parole  Commissioners  for  the  parole  of  and  govern- 
ment of  paroled  prisoners,  by  adding  thereto  Section  IV2.  relat- 
ing to  the  granting  of  paroles  and  the  forfeiture  of  credits 
for  the  violation  thereof  or  of  a  law  of  the  State  or  any  rule 
or  regulation  of  the  prison,  of  the  Board  of  Prison  Directors 
or  Of  the  Board  of  Parole  Commissioners. 

S.   B.   1059.     Gerdes.     identical  with  A.    B.   1218.      Pish. 

PAWNBROKERS. 

(See  Brokers.) 

PENSIONS. 

A.  B.  96.  Bruck.  Creating  a  board  of  retirement  to  keep, 
invest,  maintain,  and  control  a  certain  fund  for  the  payment 
of  benefits  and  annuities  to  the  officers  and  employees  of  the 
Napa  State  Hospital,  Stockton  State  Hospital,  Agnews  State 
Hospital,  Mendocino  State  Hospital,  Southern  California  State 
Hospital,  and  the  Sonoma  State  Home;  providing  for  the 
creation  of  said  fund,  investments  thereof,  the  payments  to  be 
made  therefrom,  and  for  the  general  government  of  said  board 
of   retirement. 

S.    B.    239.     Rush.      Identical  with   A.    B.    96.      Bruck. 

A.  B.  1166.  Edwards,  L.  Similar  to  A.  B.  96,  Bruck,  and 
S.   B.   239,   Rush. 

S.  B.  212.  Maddux.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved June  16,  1913,  providing  for  the  payment  of  retirement 
salaries  to  public  school  teachers  of  this  State;  creating  a 
public  school  teachers'  retirement  salary  fund,  and  also  a  public 
school  teachers'  permanent  fund,  providing  for  the  administra- 
tion Of  such  funds,  and  making  an  appropriation  for  the  uses 
of  said  funds,  prescribing  what  teachers  are  entitled  to  retire- 
ment salaries. 

S.  B.  4?0.  Breed.  Amending  Section  15  of  an  Act  approved 
June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  retirement  salaries 
to  the  public  school  teachers  of  this  State;  creating  a  public 
school  teachers'  retirement  salary  fund,  and  also  a  public 
school  teachers'  permanent  fund,  providing  for  the  administra- 
tion of  such  funds,  and  making  an  appropriation  for  the  uses 
of  said  funds. 

Makes  service  as  teacher,  with  or  Without  certificate  in  State 
Normal  School  or  California  School  for  Deaf  and  Blind  equiva- 
lent to  service  under  legal  certificate  in  a  day  or  evening 
school  and  time  of  such  Service  shall  be  reckoned  in  deter- 
mining right  to  retirement  salaries  under  provisions  of  Sections 
13  and  14  of  this  Act. 


276  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

A.    B.    421).     Rominger.     Identical   with    S.    B,    470.      Breed. 

A.  B.  364.  Sisson.  Amending  Section  16  of  an  Act  approved 
June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  retirement  salaries 
to  public  school  teachers  of  this  State;  creating  a  public 
school  teachers'  retirement  salary  fund,  and  also  a  public 
school  teachers'  permanent  fund,  providing  for  the  administra- 
tion of  such  funds,  and  making  an  appropriation  for  the  uses 
of  said  funds. 

Adds  provision  that  time  of  service  for  purpose  of  this  Act 
if  a  teacher  has  taught  some  part  of  each  of  thirty  school 
years  and  the  aggregate  number  of  months  taught,  number  30 
years,  is  equivalent  to  an  average  of  the  number  of  months 
fixed  as  minimum  for  full  years  teaching  by  board,  such 
teacher  shall  be  adjudged  to  have  taught  required  time  within 
meaning   of   Act. 

A.  B.  472.     Wright.     Identical  with  iS.  B.  470.     Breed. 

A.  B.  739.  Kerr.  Amending  Section  17  and  18  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  13,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  retire- 
ment salaries  to  public  school  teachers  of  this  State;  creating 
a  public  school  teachers'  retirement  salary  fund,  and  also  a 
public  school  teachers'  permanent  fund,  providing  for  the 
administration  of  such  funds,  and  making  an  appropriation 
for  the  uses  of  said  funds,  by  including  all  teachers  employed 
in  the  Preston  School  of  Industry,  the  Whittier  State  School 
and  the  California  School  for  Girls,  who  on  or  before  Janu- 
ary  1,    1916,    sign   the   notification   provided  for. 

A.  B.  627.  Rlgdon.  Adding  Section  21a  (new)  to  an  Act 
approved  June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  ^retire- 
ment salaries  to  public  school  teachers  of  this  State,  creating 
a  public  school  teachers'  retirement  salary  fund,  and  also  a 
public  school  teachers',  permanent  fund,  providing  for  the-  ad- 
ministration'of  such' funds,  and  "making  an  appropriation  for 
the  use  of  said  fund,  making  said  Act  applicable  to  teachers 
of  the  California  Polytechnic  School. 

A.  B.  805.  Encell.  Providing  for  resignation  and  retirement 
with  half  pay,  after  thirty  years  of  service,  of  justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  District  Court  of  Appeal,  and  judges  of 
the   Superior  Court. 

A.  B.  1483.  Byrnes.  Creating  a  fund  for  the  payment  of  dis- 
ability benefits  and  annuities  for  disabled  professional  ball 
players,  and  establishing  a  board  of  retirement  for  the  admin- 
istration of  said  fund. 

Provides  for  the  appointment  by  the  Governor  of  a  board  of 
three  members,  to  serve  without  pay,  and  to  be  known  as  the 
"State  Retirement  Board".  Any  professional  baseball  player 
who  has  played  for  fifteen  years  or  more  in  the  Coast  League 
and  for.  at  least  ten  consecutive  years  with  one  club-,  of  the 
league,  and  who  has  been  disabled  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 


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fessipn  shall,  so  long  as  such  disability  lasts,,  be  paid  monthly 
from  the  fund  of  the  retirement  board  a  sum  amounting  to 
.  50  per  cent  of  his  salary,  but  not  to  exceed  $100  a  month. 
This  pension  is  to  be  paid  from  a  "disability  benefit  and  an- 
nuity fund"  to  be  created  by  gifts  and  bequests. 

PHARMACY. 

S.  B.  827.  Campbell.  Amending  Section  13  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  20,  1905,  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
in  the  State  of  California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the 
violation  thereof;  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to  be 
known   as    the    California    State    Board    of    Pharmacy. 

S.  B.  708.  Shearer  (by  request).  Amending  Section  16  of  an 
Act,  approved  March  20,  1905,  and  amended  March  21,  1907, 
and  April  21,  1909,  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy' in  the 
State  of  California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the  violation 
thereof;  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to  be  known  as 
tire  California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy. 

A.  B.  632."  Chamberlin.  Amending  Section  16  of  an  Act 
approved'  March  '  20,  1905,  and  amended  March  21,  1907, 
and  April  21,  1909,  to  'regulate  the  practice  of  phar- 
macy in  the  State  of  California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for 
the  violation  thereof;  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to 
be  known  as  the  California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  relat- 
ing to  drugs,  chemicals,  medicines  and  remedies  that  may  be 
sold  by  grocers  and  dealers  generally  without  restrictions,  and 
without   fee,    permit   or   license. 

S.  B.   834.     Conn.     Identical  with  A.   B.   632.     Chamberlin. 

A.  B.  770.  Encell.  Amending  Section  16  of  an  A.ct,  ap- 
proved March  20,  1905,  and  amended  March  21,  1907,  and  April 
21,  1909,  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  Statte 
of  California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof; 
and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to  be  known  as  the 
California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy.: 

POISONS. 

S.  B.  145.  Scott.  Amending  Section  7  of  an  Act  to  regulate 
the  sale  and  use  of  poisons  in  the  State  of  California,  and  pro- 
viding a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof,  approved  March  6, 
1907,  as  the  title  of  said  Act  and  said  Act  were  amended 
March  19,  1909,  and  as  said  Act  was  amended  April  25,  1911, 
and  as  said  Act  was  amended  June  11,  1913,  relating  to  pen- 
alties. 

>A.  B.  589.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  7  of  an  Act , -approved 
March  6,  1907,  amended  March  19,  1909,  amended  April  25, 
1911,  amended  June  11,  1913,  to  regulate  the  sale  and  use  of 
poisons  in  the  State  of  California,  and  providing  a  penalty 
for  the  violation  thereof,   relating  to  penalties. 


278  .FSXDIN&    I.&&mLATI0N,  1915. 

S.  B.  "112u.  Crowley.  Amending  Sections  7,  -8,  8a,  Sb,  8d 
and  9  of  an  Act  approved  March  6,  1907;  approved  March  19, 
1909;  approved  April  25,  1911;  approved  June  11,  1913,  to  regu- 
late the  sale  and  use  of  poisons  in  the  State  of  California  and 
providing-  a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof. 

A.  B.  899.  Gebhart.  Amending  Sections  8  and  8a  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  6,  1907,  as  the  title  of  said  Act  and  said  Act 
was  amended  April  25,  1911,  as  amended  June  11,  1913,  to 
regulate  the  sale  and  use  of  poisons  in  the  State  of  California, 
and  providing  a   penalty   for   the  violation   thereof. 

PRISON-S    AND    PRISONERS. 

(See  alsu   Parole  and   Pardon.) 

S.  B.  <oSu.  Finn.  Authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Prison  Direc- 
tors to  fix  the  price,  terms  and  conditions  of  sale  at  "Which  jute 
bags  should  be  sold  for  the  State,  providing  for  the  prosecu- 
tion and  punishment  for  offenses  under  the  same,  and  repeal- 
ing an  Act,  approved  June  16,  1913,  fixing  the  price,  terms 
and  conditions  of  sale  at  ^which  jute  goods  shall  be  sold  by  the 
State,  and  providing  for  prosecution  and  punishment  for  of- 
fenses under  the  same,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict 
herewith. 

A.  B.  723.     Chenoweth.     Identical  with   S.   B.   680,   Finn. 

S.  B.  860.  Brown.  Authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Prison 
Directors  to  make  and  enforce  rules  and  regulations  to  estab- 
lish and  maintain  an  earning  system  to  apply  to  the  inmates 
of  State  prisons  engaged  in  productive  activity,  and  making 
an  appropriation   to  carry  out   the  provisions   of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  599.  Wright.  Appropriating  money  to  continue  in 
effect  an  Act  approved  June  14,  1913,  to  authorize  the  State 
Board  Of  Prison  Directors  to  provide  for  assisting  paroled  and 
discharged  prisoners  and  to  secure  employment  for  the  same 
and  "making   an    appropriation    for   that   purpose. 

A.  B.  1342.  Canepa.  Prohibiting  the  photographing  or  mak- 
ing of  likenesses  of  any  person  arrested  for  the  commission 
of  a  crime  until  such  person  has  been  convicted  of  crime 
-charged,    and   declaring   violation   a   misdemeanor. 

PROTECTION     DISTRICTS. 

•  S.  B.  499.  Benedict.  To  provid-e  for  the  formation,  organ- 
ization and  government  of  protection  districts  in  the  various 
counties  of  this  State,  for  the  improvement  and  rectification 
of  the  channels  of  innavigable  streams  and  water  courses, 
canyons,  washes  and  swales,  for  the  purpose  of  saving  and 
conserving  any  storm  water,  flood  water  or  snow  "water  "for 
beneficial  and  useful  purposes,  for  the  prevention  of  the  over- 
flow thereof  by  widening,  deeping  and  straightening  and 
otherwise    improving   the    said   channels,    and   by    constructing 


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new  channels,  for  the  condemnation  of  property  therefor,  and 
for  the  construction  of  the  necessary  works  for  the  protection 
against,  and  conservation  of  said  storm,  flood  or  snow  waters 
by  said  district,  and  for  the  issuance  of  bonds  representing 
the  costs  and  expenses  thereof,  and  for  levying  assessments 
to  pay  the  interest  and  principal  of  such  bonds,  and  for 
levying  an  assessment  to  extend,  repair  or  maintain  such 
work. 

Bi  B.  251.  Stuckenbruck.  Providing  the  manner  in  which 
protection   districts   may   be   dissolved. 

.Majority  of  holders  of  title  to  real  property  in  district  may 
join  in  petition  for  dissolution;  board  of  supervisors  to  fix 
time  for  hearing,  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  thirty  days 
after  receipt  of  petition,  and  shall  publish  notice  by  one  pub- 
lication in  newspaper  at  least  five  days  before  date  of  hearing. 
At  time  appointed  supervisors  shall  hear  and  grant  such  peti- 
tion if  signed  by  majority  in  number  of  holders  of  title  to 
property,  and  shall  by  ordinance  or  resolution  order  such  dis- 
trict dissolved.  If  there  be  any  bonded  or  other  indebtedness 
outstanding  at  time  of  dissolution  taxes  for  payment  thereof 
shall   be   levied   and   collected   as   though   district   not  dissolved. 

S.  B.  729.  Chandler.  Providing  for  the  formation  and  con- 
duct of  oil  protection  districts,  qualification  of  voters,  election 
of  trustees,  their  powers  and  duties,  establishment  of  office, 
levying  tax,  disposition  of  funds,  and  specifying  duties  of  land 
or  well  owners  and  further  providing  for  dissolution  of  districts. 

PRODUCE  EXCHANGE  COMMISSION. 

S.  B.  989.  Maddux.  To  provide  for  the  organization  of  the 
State  Produce  Exchange  Commission,  to  define  its  powers  and 
duties  and  the  rights  and  privileges  of  producers  of  agricul- 
tural, horticultural,  dairy  and  farm  products,  and  products 
manufactured  or  processed  therefrom,  which  shall  be  grown, 
raised,  produced,  processed,  or  manufactured  within  the  State 
of  California,  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the  offense  of  using 
or  imitating  the  State  brand  or  label  adopted  by  such  commis- 
sion, and  appropriating  money  for  establishing  and  carrying 
out  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  creating  the  "State  Produce 
Exchange  Fund",  and  providing  for  the  manner  in  which 
money  shall  be  placed  therein  and  paid  therefrom,  and  appro- 
priating the  moneys  therein  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  and  to  provide  that  subsequent  legislation  by  the  Legis- 
lature may  be  enacted  to  facilitate  the  operation  of  this  Act, 
but  without  limiting  or  restricting  its  provisions,  and  to  repeal 
all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

Provides  for  handling  of  horticultural,  dairy  and  farm  pro- 
ducts and  manufactures  by  the  State.     Offices  are  to  be  estab- 


280  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

lished  in  San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles  and  distributing 
stations  throughout  the  State.  Five  commissioners  are  to 
govern  the  exchange,  at  salaries  of  $6000  a  year,  with  an 
attorney  at  $4000  and  a  secretary  at  $3600.  It  is  planned  to 
make    the   exchange    self-supporting. 

A.  B.  818.  Spengler.  To  provide  for  the  organization  of  the 
State  Produce  Exchange  Commission,  to  define  its  powers  and 
duties  and  the  rights  and  privileges  of  producers  of  agri- 
cultural, horticultural,  dairy  and  farm  products,  and  products 
manufactured  or  processed  therefrom,  which  shall  be  grown, 
raised,  produced,  processed,  or  manufactured;  and  to  pro- 
vide a  penalty  for  the  offense  of  using  or  imitating  the  State 
brand  or  label  adopted  by  such  commission,  and  appropriating 
money  for  establishing  and  carrying  out  the  provisions  of 
this  Act,  creating  the  "State  Produce  Exchange  Fund",  and 
providing  for  the  manner  in  which  money  shall  be  placed 
therein  and  paid  therefrom,  and  appropriating  the  moneys 
therein  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  repeal 
all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

PUBLIC     BUILDINGS. 

S.  B.  234.  Jones.  Repealing  an  Act,  approved  April  1,  1872, 
relating  to  the  erection  of  public  buildings*  and  structures. 

S.  B.  711.  Cogswell.  Repealing  an  Act,  approved  April  1, 
1872,  to  regulate  the  erection  of  public  buildings  and  structures. 

A.  B.  1226.  Fish.  Repealing  an  Act,  approved  April  1,  1872, 
to  regulate  the  erection  of  public  buildings  and  structures. 

PUBLIC    DEFENDER. 

(See  Defender,  Public;  Legal  Aid.) 

PUBLIC     HEALTH     AND     SANITATION. 

(See   also   Hospitals   and    Nurses;    Cattle   and   Livestock.) 
S.    B.    10.      Flaherty.      To   protect   the   health   of   persons   em- 
ployed  in  handling  Portland  cement,  by  requiring  such  cement 
to   be    packed    in    paper   sacks   or   other   dust-proof   containers, 
and    empowering    the    Commissioner    of    the    Bureau    of    Labor 
Statistics    to   prevent    the   loading   or   unloading   of   same   from 
vessels   or   cars;    makes    it   a   misdemeanor   to   violate    this   act 
or    the    order    of    the    Commissioner,    the    punishment    being    a 
fine  of  not   less  than   $50   nor  more   than   $200   or  by  imprison- 
ment not  more  than  60  days  or  both;   in  the  case  of  corpora- 
tions,  imprisonment  shall  be  inflicted  upon  the  officers  order- 
ing or  permitting  the  violation. 
A.    B.    14.      McDonald.     Identical   with    S.    B.    10.      Flaherty. 
"  '  A.    B.  "4.      Canepa."     Relative    to  'the   furnishing   of   drinking 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  281, 

water  and  individual  drinking  cups  on  passenger  trains  of 
railroad    corporations,    and   providing   penalties   therefor. 

Requires  furnishing  of  drinking  water  and  individual  cups 
free  to  passengers  on  cars  or  trains  running  20  miles  or  more. 
Violation  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  for  each  trip 
made  by  car  transporting  passengers  and  not  provided  with 
water  and  cups.  (A.  B.  418.  Canepa.  "Pending  Legislation, 
1913,"   p.    446.) 

S.  B.  409.  Gerdes.  To  regulate  bakeries;  to  provide  for  in- 
spection, regulation  and  control  thereof  by  the  Commissioner 
of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics;  and  prohibiting  the  opera- 
tion of  bakeries  without  sanitary  certificates  as  herein  pro- 
vided. 

A.    B.   535.     Collins.     Identical   with    S.    B.    409.     Gerdes. 

S.  B.  410.  Crowley.  Defining  mattresses;  regulating  the 
making,  remaking,  and  sale  thereof;  prohibiting  the  use  of 
unsanitary  and  unhealthy  materials  therein;  requiring  that 
materials  used  shall  be  accurately  described,  and  the  percent- 
age of  materials  used  in  each  mattress  stated,  and  prescribing 
the  manner  in  which  mattresses  shall  be  labelled;  and  making 
the  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  thi««  Act  a  misdemeanor, 
and  repealing  legislation  inconsistent  with  this  Act. 

A.   B.    526.      Godsil.     Identical   with   S.    B.    410.     Crowley. 

S.  B.  403.  Beban.  Requiring  employers  of  labor  to  furnish, 
without  charge,  pure  drinking  water  to  their  employees  during 
working  hours,  to  which  access  shall  be  permitted  at  reason- 
able and  convenient  times  and  places;  violation  a  misdemeanor, 
punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  or  more  than  $100,  or  by 
imprisonment  not  more  than  30  days,   or  both. 

A.  B.  524.     McDonald,  J.  J.     Identical  with  S.  B.  403.     Beban. 

A.  B.  47.  Schmitt.  Amending  Sections  3  and  5  of  an 
Act,  approved  March  6,  1909,  providing  for  the  sanitation  of 
food-producing  establishments,  places  where  food  is  stored, 
prepared,  kept  or  manufactured  and  in  which  food  is  dis- 
tributed; regulating  the  health  of  persons  by  whom  the 
material  from  which  food  is  prepared  or  the  finished  product 
is  handled ;  providing  for  the  inspection  of  such  places,  per- 
sons   and    things. 

A.  B.  431.  Chamberlin.  Repealing  an  Act  approved  April 
25,  1913,  regulating  the  cleaning,  laundering,  sale,  offering  for 
sale,  and  furnishing  for  use  to  employees,  of  wiping  rags; 
authorizing  counties,  cities  and  counties,  cities  and  towns,  to 
enact  ordinances  prohibiting  the  cleaning,  laundering,  steriliz- 
ing and  sale  of  wiping  rags  without  a  permit,  and  to  issue  and 
revoke  permits  to  clean,  launder,  and  sell  wiping  rags  within 
their  respective  jurisdictions;  authorizing  peace  and  health 
officers  to  make  inspections  of  wiping  rags,  and  making  viola- 
tions of  this  Act  a  misdemeanor. 


282  PENDING    LEGISLATION,   1915. 

A.  B.  540.  Prendergast.  Providing  a  minimum  standard 
of  sanitation  for  all  labor  camps,  making  an  appropriation 
to  carry  out  the  provisions  hereof,  and  repealing  Acts  incon- 
sistent herewith. 

S.   B.  903.     Benedict.     Identical  with  A.  B.  540.     Prendergast. 

A.  B.  564.  Godsil  (by  request).  Relating  to  public  health 
and  safety  and  providing  for  the  regulation  and  inspection  of 
hotels  and  public  lodging  houses,  empowering  the  State  Board 
of  Health  to  make  rules  and  regulations  in  relation  thereto  and 
providing    penalties    for    the    violation    thereof. 

Defines  "hotel"  as  any  building  or  structure  kept,  used, 
maintained  or  advertised  as  a  place  where  sleeping  accommo- 
dations are  furnished  for  pay  to  transient  guests  whether 
with  or  without  meals;  requires  every  hotel  more  than  two 
stories  high  to  have  a  hall  on  each  floor  extending  from  outer 
wall  to  outer  wall  with  an  opening  at  each  end  connecting 
with  an  iron  fire  escape  on  the  outside  of  the  building,  marked 
with  a  red  light  to  be  kept  burning  all  night;  and  an  auto- 
matic gong  located  near  the  center  of  the  building  on  each 
floor,  operated  from  the  office  or  ground  floor.  In  all  hotels 
of  fifty  or  more  rooms  a  watchman  shall  be  employed  from 
9  p.  m.  to  6  a.  m.,  who  shall  patrol  the  building  every  hour; 
specifies  the  method  of  erecting  fire  escapes;  there  shall  be 
at  least  one  efficient  chemical  fire  extinguisher  on  each  floor 
for  1500  square  feet,  or  less,  of  floor  area;  in  lieu  thereof 
hotels  in  cities  shall  be  equipped  with  a  not  less  than  two- 
inch  stand  pipe  with  two-inch  hose  connection  on  each  floor 
writh  sufficient  two-inch  hose  to  throw  water  into  every  room; 
requires  all  elevator  shafts  to  be  enclosed  sheathing,  with 
tight,  automatic  doors  at  each  floor.  Proper  sanitary  plumbing 
shall  be  installed;  guests  shall  be  supplied  with  clean  sheets 
of  sufficient  width  and  length  to  reach  the  entire  width  and 
length  of  the  bed,  writh  the  uppor  sheet  to  be  not  less  than 
90  inches  long;  clean  pillow  slips  and  clean  individual  towels 
shall  also  be  supplied;  all  parts  of  hotels  shall  be  kept  clean 
and  all  sleeping  places  shall  be  disinfected  once  every  three 
months;  a  public  wash  room  shall  be  maintained  with  suf- 
ficient clean  towels  in  sight  at  all  times  for  use  of  guests; 
all  places  where  food  is  prepared,  kept  or  served  shall  be 
kept   clean   and    in   a    sanitary    condition. 

State  Board  of  Health  authorized  to  make  rules  and  regu- 
lations necessary  to  make  Act  effective;  chief  food  and  drug 
inspector  and  his  assistants,  the  county  health  officer,  the  city 
health  officer  and  the  fire  marshal  of  each  city  constituted 
hotel  inspectors;  any  person  in  charge  of  a  hotel  who  violates 
this  Act  and  any  person  hindering,  inspectors  in  discharge 
of  their  duties  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable 
by   fine   of   not    less    than   $10   nor   more    than    $100. 


PENDING;   LEGISLATION,  1915.  -  285 

A.  R  597.  Wright.  To  prevent  the  introduction,  and  pro- 
vide for  the  investigation  and  suppression  of  contagious  or 
infectious  diseases,  and  appropriating  $50,000  to  be  used  for 
such  purposes. 

S.  B.  796.  Campbell.  Amending  Sections  1  and  2  of  an  Act, 
approved  June  13,  1913,  relating  to  cold  storage,  the  regulation 
of  refrigerating  warehouses^  the  disposition  or  sale  of  food 
kept  or  preserved  therein,  and  defining  the  duties  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health  in  relation  thereto,  both  relating  to  cold 
storage. 

A.  B.  846.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.   796.     Campbell. 

A.  B.  988.  Gebhart.  To  provide  for  th_e  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  a  department  of  sanitary  engineering  under 
the  directions  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  and  appropriating 
$30,000  therefor. 

S.  B.  999.  Scott.  To  regulate  the  retinting  and  repapering 
of  any  house  or  building,  or  portion  thereof,  which  is  occupied 
by  human  beings,  or  intended  or  designed  for  human  habita- 
tion; allowing  health  and  peace  officers  to  make  inspection  of 
such  buildings,  and  making  violations  of  this  Act  a  mis- 
demeanor. 

Requires  all  old  tint  or  paper  to  be  removed  from  walls. 

S.  B.  616.  Gerties.  Amending  Sections  3  and  5  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  6,  1909,  providing  for  the  sanitation  of  food- 
producing  establishments,  places  where  food  is  stored,  prepared, 
kept  or  manufactured  and  in  which  food  is  distributed;  regu- 
lating the  health  of  persons  by  whom  the  materials  from 
which  food  is  prepared  or  the  finished  product  is  handled;  pro- 
viding for  the  inspection  of  such  places,  persons  and  things; 
declaring  places  and  things  in  violation  of  this  Act  to  be  a 
nuisance,  dangerous  to  health  and  providing  for  the  abatement 
of  the  same;  making  violations  of  this  Act  misdemeanors;  and 
providing  for  the  punishment  of  the  same. 

A.  B.  136S.  Meek.  To  provide  for  the  formation  of  dis- 
tricts   to    facilitate    the    extermination    of    mosquitos    and    flies. 

PUBLIC      IMPROVEMENTS. 

S.  B.  793.  Benedict.  To  provide  for  the  formation  of  dis- 
tricts within  municipalities  for  the  acquisition  or  construction 
of  public  improvements,  works  and  public  utilities  therein; 
for  the  issuance,  sale  and  payment  of  bonds  of  such  districts 
to  meet  the  cost  of  such  improvements;  and  for  the  acquisition 
or  construction   of  such   improvements. 

S.  B.  1172.  Butler.  Authorizing  any  county  and  cities  with- 
in such  county  to  join  in  the  acquisition,  construction  or 
maintenance   of  bridges  or  viaducts. 

A.   B.   1232.     Fish.     Authorizing  any  county  and  cities  within 


284  FENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

such   county  to  join   in  the  acquisition,   construction  or  main- 
tenance of  bridges  or  viaducts. 

A.  B.  449.  Ashley.  Relating-  to  the  time  for  performance  oi 
improvement  work  under  a  contract  of  sale,  lease  or  transfer 
of  real  estate. 

PUBLIC     LANDS. 

A.  B.  71.  Conrad.  Provides  for  leasing  public  lands  to  set- 
tlers and  prescribing  the  terms  and  conditions  of  leases  so 
made,  empowerng  boards  of  supervisors  to  make  improve- 
ments and  to  purchase  land  when  necessary  to  supply  the 
demand  for  such  leases,  and  directing  that  all  receipts  be 
paid  into  a  "Land  for  Settlement  Fund"  in  the  office  a?  the 
County  Treasurer. 

S.  B.  255.  Benedict.  Repealing  an  Act,  approved  March 
20,  1909,  to  authorize  the  State  of  California  to  release  and 
convey  to  the  United  States  such  portions  of  the  sixteenth 
and  thirty-sixth  sections  of  land  contained  in  the  Cleveland 
National  Forest,  formerly  San  Jacinto  forest  reserve  (and 
referred  to  in  that  certain  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  authorize 
the  settlement  of  an  existing  controversy  between  the  United 
States  of  America  and  the  State  of  California,  and  making 
an  appropriation  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  said  Act", 
approved  March  21,  1907),  as  may  remain  after  the  settlement 
referred  to  in  said  Act  has  been  consummated,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  reimbursing  the  United  States  for  lands  surrendered 
to  it  by  the  State  and  which  said  lands  so  surrendered  were 
thereafter  sold  and  patented  by  said  State. 

A.   B.    476.     Fish.     Identical   with   S.    B.    £55.     Benedict. 

A.  B.  286.  Browne.  Authorizing  the  issuance  of  letters  pat- 
ent to  P.  W.  Fahey  for  certain  swamp  and  overflowed  land  in 
Tuolumne  county,    California. 

A.  B.  769.  Dennett  (by  request).  Authorizing  the  Surveyor- 
General  of  the  State  of  California  to  consent  to  the  provisions 
of  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  July  17,  1914,  entitled  "An  Act 
to  provide  for  agricultural  entry  of  lands  withdrawn,  classified, 
or  reported  as  containing  phosphate,  nitrate,  potash,  oil,  gas 
or  asphaltic  minerals". 

A.  B.  903.  Gebhart.  Providing  for  the  preferential  rights  of 
certain  persons  to  purchase  public  lands  of  the  State. 

S.  B.  905.  Benedict.  To  authorize  the  Surveyor-General  of 
the  State  of  California  to  relinquish  certain  lieu  lands  to  the 
United  States. 

A.   B.   1222.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.   905.     Benedict. 

S.  B.  906.  Benedict.  Providing  for  the  sale  of  certain  State 
lands. 

A.   B.   1221.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.   906.     Benedict. 

S.  B.   1105.     Slater.     Authorizing  the  sale  of  certain  property 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  285 

belonging   to   the    State   of   California,    and   located   in   what   is 
known,  as   Reclamation   District   1600    in   Yolo   County. 

S.  B."  1117.  Breed.  An  Act  for  making  restitution  to  the  per- 
sons who  are  or  may  become  entitled  thereto  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  Sections  3408d,  3571  and  3572  of  the 
Political  Code  of  the  principal  sums  by  them,  or  by  their  re- 
spective predecessors  in  interest,  paid  to  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia and  thereafter  deposited  in  the  State  Treasury  to  the 
credit  of  the  State  School  Land  Fund  pursuant  to  law,  prescrib- 
ing certain  duties  of  the  Register  of  the  State  Land  Office, 
the  State  Controller  and  the  State  Treasurer  with  respect 
thereto",  and  making  an  appropriation  for  such  purpose. 
'■  A!  B.  1377.     Wright,  H.  W.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1117.     Breed. 

S\  B.  1119.  Breed.  To  provide  ^or  making  restitution  to  the 
persons  who  are  or  may  become  entitled  thereto,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  Sections  3571  and  3572  of  the  Polit- 
ical Code,  of  the  sums  by  them,  or  by  their  respective  prede- 
cessors in  interest,  paid  to  the  State  of  California  as  interest 
upOn  the  unpaid  balance  of  the  purchase  price  of  lands  wrong- 
fully sold,  or  to  which  the  State  is  unable  to  pass  title,  and 
thereafter  deposited  in  the  State  Treasury  to  the  credit  of 
the  State  school  fund  pursuant  to  law;  prescribing  certain 
duties  of  the  Register  of  the  State  Land  Office,  the  State  Con- 
troller and  the  State  Treasurer  with  respect  thereto;  and 
making  an  appropriation  for  such  purpose. 

A.  B.  1378.     Wright,  H.  W.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1119.     Breed. 

PUBLIC     MONEY. 

(See   Banking.) 

A.  B.  1106.  Shartel.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  23,  1907,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  the  de- 
posit of  county  and  municipal  moneys  in  banks  and  banking 
corporations,  limiting  the  amount  of  public  moneys  that  may 
be  deposited  therein,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  illegal 
deposit  and  use  thereof. 

Requires  the  payment  of  at  least  two  per  cent  per  annum 
interest. 

A.  B.  1465.  Lostutter.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  23,  1907,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  the  deposit 
of  county  and  municipal  moneys  in  banks  and  banking  cor- 
porations, limiting  the  amount  of  public  moneys  that  may  be 
deposited  therein,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  illegal  de- 
posit and  use  thereof 

S.  B.  566.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  2  and  7  of  an  Act, 
approved  March  23,  1907,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  the 
deposit  of  county  and  municipal  moneys  in  banks  and  bank- 
ing  corporations,    limiting   the   amount   of   public   moneys    that 


286  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

may  be  deposited  therein,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the 
illegal  deposit  and  use  thereof. 

A.  B.  1241.  Wishard  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B.  566. 
Benedict. 

S.  B.  1099.  Duncan.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved March  23,  1907,  to  provide  for  and  regulate  the  deposit 
of  county  and  municipal  moneys  in  banks  and  banking  cor- 
porations, limiting  the  amount  of  public  moneys  that  may  be 
deposited  therein,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  illegal  deposit 
and  use  thereof,  relating  to  rate  of  interest. 

A.  B.  907.  Sisson.  To  provide  for  the  deposit  of  the  funds 
in  the  county  treasury,  for  the  presentation  to,  and  approval 
by  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  registration,  interest  upon,  time 
of  payment  and  receipt  in  payment  of  assessment  of  war- 
rants,  etc. 

A.  B.  628.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  pro- 
viding for  the  designation  of  money  in  the  State  Treasury  as 
surplus  money,  authorizing  the  investment  and  reinvestment 
of  such  money  in  certain  classes  of  bonds,  directing  the  dis- 
posal of  interest  or  premium  received  therefrom  and  permit- 
ting the  subsequent  sale  or  exchange  of  the  bonds  so  pur- 
chased, so  as  to  authorize  the  investment  thereof  in  bonds  of 
irrigation   districts. 

A.  B.  63.0.  Dennett.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  author- 
izing the  investment  and  reinvestment  and  disposition  of  any 
surplus  moneys  in  the  territory  of  any  county,  city  and 
county  or  incorporated  city  or  town. 

Authorizes  investment  of  surplus  moneys  in  bonds  of  school 
or  irrigation  districts. 

A.  B.  1109.  Shartel.  Authorizing  the  loaning  and  deposition 
of  surplus  moneys  in  the  treasury  of  any  county,  city  and 
county,   or  incorporated  city  or  town. 

Provides  for  loan  of  surplus  moneys  to  any  person  or  per- 
sons upon  being  secured  therefor  by  first  mortgages  on  real 
estate.  Sum  so  loaned  not  to  exceed  20  per  cent  of  the  value 
of  said  real  estate  which  must  be  situated  within  limits  of 
such  county,   city  and   county,   or  incorporated  city  or   town. 

PUBLIC     OFFICERS 

S.  B.  1121.  Luce.  Amending  Section  1  of  an  Act  approved 
April  26,  1911,  relating  to  the  liability  of  public  officers  for 
damages  resulting  from  defects  and  dangers  in  streets,  high- 
ways,  public  buildings,   public   work  or  property. 

A.  B.  1415.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.  1121.     Luce. 

S.  B.  1152.  Benedict.  Authorizing  the  transfer  of  certain 
powers,  duties  and  functions  of  certain  cities  and  officers 
thereof  to  the  officers  of  counties  in  which  any  such  city  is 
located. 


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PUBLIC    UTILITIES,    ACQUISITION     OF. 

A.  B.  1254.  Manning.  To  facilitate  the  purchase  by  munici- 
palities of  existing  public  utility  plants  at  valuation  fixed  by 
agreement  of  by  the  Railroad  Commission  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

S.  B.  600.  Carr.  To  provide  for  submitting  to  the  qualified 
electors  of  every  city  and  county,  or  incorporated  city  or  town, 
in  this  State,  the  question  whether  such  city  and  county,  or 
incorporated  city  or  town,  shall  retain  powers  of  control 
vested  therein  respecting  all  or  any  public  utilities,  and  to 
provide  for  elections  thereafter  to  surrender  such  powers  of 
control  in  case  the  qualified  electors  of  any  such  city  and 
county,  or  incorporated  city  or  town,  shall  have  voted  to 
retain   such   powers   of   control. 

A.   B.  677.     Avey.     Identical  with  S.   B.  600.     Carr. 

A.  B.  943.  Harris.  Declaring  corporations,  individuals  and 
associations  of  individuals  engaged  in  developing  or  produc- 
ing, refining,  buying  and  selling  or  transporting  crude  petrol- 
eum or  any  of  its  products,  a  public  utility,  and  providing  for 
the  regulation  thereof. 

PUBLIC     UTILITY     DISTRICTS. 

S.  B.  884.  Breed.  An  Act  providing  for  the  incorporation 
of  public  utility-  districts  by  municipalities  and  unincorporated 
territory,  authorizing  such  districts  to  incur  bonded  indebted- 
ness for  the  purpose  of  the  constructon  of  works  and  the 
acquisition  of  property,  and  to  levy  and  collect  taxes  to  pay 
the  principal  and  interest  on  bonds  and  for  carrying  on  their 
operations,  and  providing  for  the  powers,  management  and 
government  of  such  districts. 

A.  B.  1261.  Satterwhite.  To  provide  for  the  incorporation 
and  organization  of  public  utility  districts,  authorizing  such 
districts  to  incur  bonded  indebtedness  for  the  purpose  of  the 
construction  of  works  and  the  acquisition  of  property,  and  to 
levy  and  collect  taxes  to  pay  the  principal  and  interest  on 
bonds  and  for  carrying-  on  their  operations,  and  providing  for 
the  powers,  management  and  government  of  such  districts  and 
to  amend  an  Act   entitled  as  above,   approved  June  5,    1913. 

PURE  FOOD  AND  DRUG  ACTS. 

A.  B.  792.  Schmitt.  Amending  Sections  9  and  22  of  an  Act 
approved  March  11,  1907,  for  preventing  the  manufacture,  sale 
or  transportation  of  adulterated,  mislabeled  or  misbranded 
foods  and  liquors  and  regulating  the  traffic  therein,  provid- 
ing penalties,  establishing  a  State  laboratory  for  foods,  etc., 
relating  to  the  State  laboratory  for  the  analysis  and  examina- 
tion of  foods  and  drugs. 


28.8  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

B.  B.  817.     Cogswell.     Identical  with  A.  B.  792.     Schmitt. 

S.  B.  812.  Rush.  Amending-  Section  21  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  11,  1907,  for  the  prevention  of  the  manufacture,  sale 
or  transportation  of  adulterated,  mislabeled  or  misbranded 
drugs,  regulating  the  traffic  in  drugs  and  providing  penalties 
for  violation  thereof,  relating  to  the  establishment  of  a  guar- 
anty by  the  dealer  from  the  wholesaler. 

A.   B.   847.     Scott,   F.   C.     Identical  with   S.   B.   812.     Rush. 

A.  B.  1040.     Scott,  F.  C.     Identical  with  S.  B.  812.     Rush. 

S.  B.  1048.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  21  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved March  11,  1907,  for  the  prevention  of  manufacture,  sale 
or  transportation  of  adulterated,  mislabeled  or  misbranded 
drugs,  regulating  the  traffic  in  drugs  and  providing  penalties 
for  violation  thereof,  relating  to  guarantee  by  wholesaler, 
jobber  or  manufacturer,   etc. 

S.  B.  in  16.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  22  of  an  Act  for 
preventing  the  manufacture,  sale  or  transportation  of  adulter- 
ated, mislabeled,  or  misbranded  foods  and  liquors  and  regulat- 
ing the  traffic  therein,  providing  penalties,  establishing  a  State 
laboratory  for  foods,  liquors  and  drugs  and  making  an  appro- 
priation therefor,  approved  March  11,  1907,  as  amended  by  an 
Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  amend  Sections  20  and  22  of  an  Act 
entitled  'An  Act  for  preventing  the  manufacture,  sale  or  trans- 
portation of  adulterated,  mislabeled  or  misbranded  foods  and 
liquors  and  regulating  the  traffic  therein,  providing  penalties, 
establishing  a  State  laboratory  for  foods,  liquors  and  drugs 
and  making  an  appropriation  therefor,'  approved  March  11, 
1907,"  which  amendatory  Act  was  approved  April  26,  1911, 
relating  to  guarantees  by  wholesalers,  Jobbers  or  manu- 
facturers. 

A.  B.  1037.  Scott.  Amending  Section  22  of  an  Act  for  pre- 
venting the  manufacture,  sale  or  transportation  of  adulter- 
ated, mislabeled  or  misbranded  foods  and  liquors  and  regu- 
alting   the   traffic   therein,    etc. 

A.  B.  1147.  Gebhart.  Amending  an  Act  for  preventing  the 
manufacture,  sale  or  transportation  of  adulterated,  mislabeled 
or  misbranded  foods  and  liquors,  and  regulating  the  traffic 
therein,  providing  penalty,  establishing  a  State  laboratory  for 
foods,  liquors  and  drugs,  and  making  an  appropriation  there- 
for, by  adding  a  new  paragraph  to  be  numbered  10,  to  Section 
4  thereof,  providing  "If  meat  or  meat  products  contain  or  are 
colored  with  analine  colors". 

PURE     PRODUCTS, 

A.  B.  184.  Boude.  Regulating  the  sale  of  eggs  that  have 
been  shipped  or  imported  into  the  State  of  California  from 
any  point  or  place  outside  of  the  State  of  California,  requiring 
the  marking  thereof  by  all  persons  selling  or  offering  the  same 


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for  sale,  and  fixing  penalties  fur  the  violation  of  the  same  or 
of  any  of  the  provisions  thereof. 

A.  B.  185.  Boude.  Regulating  the  sale  or  food  and  drink, 
the  ingredients  of  which  are  in  part  composed  of  eggs  shipped 
or  imported  into  the  State  of  California,  from  any  point  or 
place  outside  of  the  State  of  California,  requiring  the  marking 
of  all  bills  of  fare  or  menu  cards  placed  on  tables  or  counters 
in  establishments  preparing,  serving  or  offering  for  sale  any 
such  food  or  drink,  and  fixing  penalties  for  the  violation  of  the 
same   or   of  any   of   the   provisions   thereof. 

A.  B.  186.  Boude.  Requiring  the  placing  of  cards  in  all 
packages  or  wrappers  enclosing  manufacturers'  food  products, 
before  being  sold  or  offered  for  sale,  which  are  composed  in 
part  of  eggs  shipped  or  imported  into  the  State  of  California, 
from  any  point  or  place  outside  of  the  State  of  California, 
declaring  that  the  eggs  used  are  imported,  and  fixing  penalties 
for  the  violation  of  the  same  or  any  of  the  provisions   thereof. 

S.  B.  926.  Shearer  (by  request).  To  regulate  the  sale  and 
labeling  of  paints;  prescribing  what  the  label  shall  set  forth; 
and  prescribing  penalties  for  the  violation   thereof. 

S.  B.  1176.  Kehoe  (by  request).  To  regulate  the  placing  of 
cards  in  all  packages  or  wrappers  inclosing  manufactured  food 
products  before  being  sold  or  offered  for  sale  which  are  com- 
posed in  part  of  butter  shipped  or  imported  into  the  State 
of  California  from  any  point  or  place  outside  of  the  United 
States  and  fixing  penalties  for  the  violation  of  the  same  or 
of  any  of  the  provisions  thereof. 

A.  B.  1304.  Hawson.  To  prevent  deception  in  the  manufac- 
ture, packing  and  sale  of  raisins  and  providing  a  penalty  for 
the  violation  thereof. 

RACING. 

A.  B.  720.  Marron.  Relating  to  horse  racing;  creating  a 
State  racing  commission  for  the  regulating,  licensing  and 
supervision  of  such  races;  and  prescribing  penalties  for  the 
violation  of  the  'provisions   hereof. 

Provides  for  one  or  more  running  race  meetings  in  each 
year,  but  no  more  than  one  race  meeting  shall  be  held  in 
any  county  in  any  one  year,  nor  shall  any  meeting  be  for 
longer  than  30  days;  purses,  prizes,  premiums  or  stakes  may 
be  offered,  but  no  persons  other  than  owners  of  horses  con- 
testing shall  have  any  interest  in  such  purse.  A  State  racing 
commission  of  three  reputable  citizens  is  created,  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor,  and  to  hold  office  for  four  years;  it 
shall  prescribe  rules,  regulations  and  conditions  under  which 
races  shall  be  conducted.  Five  per  cent  of  total  gate  receipts 
of  every  race  meeting  shall  be  paid  into  State  treasury. 
Corporation  or  association  desiring  to   conduct   racing  may  ap- 


290  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

ply  annually  to  State  racing  commission  for  license,  and  if 
commission  deems  proper  same  may  be  granted  for  one  year, 
and  race  meetings  conducted  thereunder,  subject  to  the  rules, 
regulations  and  conditions  of  the  commission.  Refusal  or 
revocation  of  license  shall  be  made  publicly  and  reasons  given 
in  writing,  such  action  by  commission  being  reviewable  by 
the  courts. 

Unauthorized  racing  is  declared  a  public  nuisance,  and 
every  person  acting  or  aiding  therein  shall  be  guilty  of  mis- 
demeanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $500  or  more 
than  $1000  for  each  day  of  such  racing,  and  action  may  be 
maintained   by  commission   to   enjoin   such   race   meeting. 

A.  B.  1405.  Matron.  Relating  to  horse  racing;  creating  a 
State  Racing  Commission  for  the  regulating,  licensing  and 
supervision  of  such  races,  and  prescribing  penalties  for  the 
violation  of  the  provisions  hereof,  and  repealing  all  Acts  or 
parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  herewith. 

Similar  to  A.  B.  720,  Marron,  except  that  this  bill  provides 
that  "there  shall  be  no  wagering  on  the  result  of  any  race 
held  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  except  the  Pari-mutuels 
and  auction  pool  systems".  The  provision  in  the  original  bill 
(A.  B.  720)  permitting  the  offering  of  purses,  prizes,  premiums 
or  stakes,  but  providing  that  no  person  or  persons  other  than 
owners  of  horses  contesting  shall  have  any  pecuniary  interest 
in  such  purses,  or  be  entitled  to  or  receive  any  portion  thereof 
after  such  race,  and  that  purses  shall  be  allotted  in  accordance 
with  terms  and  conditions  of  such  race,  is  stricken  out;  and 
a  provision  repealing  all  conflicting  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  is 
added. 

S.  B.  1202.  Beban.  To  provide  for  the  regulation  and  super- 
vision of  racing  meetings;  establishing  a  State  racing  com- 
mission for  the  purpose  of  administering  the  provisions  hereof, 
and  denning  its  powers  and  duties;  prohibiting  book-making; 
and  prescribing  penalties  for  violation  of  the  provisions  of  the 
Act. 

Provides  that  racing  may  be  held  by  any  association  which 
receives  a  permit  from  a  commission  of  five  members  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Governor,  this  commission  to  be  composed 
of  men  who  are  horse  breeders  and  who  have  not  had  any 
financial  interest  in  any  race  track  for  five  years.  The  measure 
does  not  permit  any  form  of  betting  on  the  races  or  the  pres- 
ence of  any  bookmakers. 

RAILROAD     COMMISSION. 

S.  B.  457.  Carr.  To  provide  for  the  organization  of  the 
Railroad  Commission,  to  define  its  powers  and  duties  and  the 
rights,  remedies,  powers  and  duties  of  public  utilities  and 
their    officers,     and     the    rights    and    remedies    of    patrons    of 


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public  utilities,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  offenses  by  public 
utilities,  their  officers,  agents  and  employees  and  by  other 
persons  and  corporations,  creating  the  "Railroad  Commission 
fund"  and  .  appropriating  moneys  therein  to  carry  out  the 
provisions  of  this  Act,  and  repealing  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.   B.   503.     Avey.     Identical  with  S.   B.   457.     Carr. 

S.  B.  533.  Scott.  Placing  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Rail- 
road Commission  every  employer  who  provides  hospital  service 
for  his  employees  and  makes  a  charge  therefor;  requiring  every 
such  charge  to  be  just  and  reasonable  and  to  be  devoted  to 
no  other  purpose  than  such  hospital  service;  and  prescribing 
penalties  for  violations  of  the  provisions  hereof. 

A.  B.  942.  Harris.  Amending  Section  2  and  Section  50  of 
an  Act  to  amend  an  Act  to  provide  for  the  organization  of 
the  Railroad  Commission,  to  define  its  powers  and  duties  and 
the  rights,  remedies,  powers  and  duties  of  public  utilities, 
their  officers,  define  its  powers  and  duties  and  the  rights, 
remedies,  of  patrons  of  public  utilities,  and  to  provide  penalties 
for  offenses  by  public  utilities,  their  officers,  agents  and 
employees  and  by  other  persons  and  corporations,  creating 
the  "railroad  commission  fund"  and  appropriating  the  moneys 
therein  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  repealing 
the  Railroad  Commission  Act,  approved  February  10,  1911, 
and  also  repealing  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  amend  the 
railroad  commission  Act  by  amending  Section  15  thereof  re- 
lating to  powers  and  duties  of  the  Railroad  Commission  of 
the  State  of  California,  and  to  amend  Section  37  thereof  re- 
lating to  free  and  reduced  rate  transportation  for  freight  and 
passengers,"  approved  April  6,  1911,  and  all  Acts  and  parts  of 
Acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  approved 
December  23,  1911,  and  known  as  the  "Public  Utilities  Act," 
relating  to  the  creation  of  new  public  utilities  and  providing 
for  regulation  thereof. 

A.  B.  1300.  Manning.  Amending  Section  17  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved December  23,  1911,  to  provide  for  the  organization  of 
the  Railroad  Commission,  to  define  its  powers  and  duties  and 
the  rights,  remedies,  powers,  duties  of  public  utilities,  their 
officers,  define  its  powers  and  duties  and  the  rights,  remedies 
of  patrons,  etc. 

S.  B.  795.  Campbell  (by  request).  To  provide  in  what  man- 
ner any  private  corporation  or  individual,  or  association  of 
individuals,  owning  or  controlling  real  property,  or  any  right 
appertaining  thereto,  which  by  reason  of  its  location  is  suit- 
able, convenient  and  useful  for  the  use  of  one  or  more  private 
or  public  corporations  serving  the  public,  may  subject  itself 
to  the  control  and  regulation  by  the  Railroad  Commission  of 
the   State  of  California. 


292  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

RAILROADS. 

(See   Common   Carriers.) 

A.  B.  493.  Encell.  To  regulate  the  use  of  derailing  switches 
or  other  derailing  devices,  in  the  operation  of  railroads  in 
the  State  of  California;  providing  for  the  use  of  signboards 
in  connection  with  such  derailing  switches  or  devices  for  the 
purpose  of  designating  the  location  of  the  same  to  approaching 
trains,  their  enginemen  and  crews;  providing  penalties  for  the 
violation  of  its  provisions  and  providing  for  the  enforcement 
of  this  Act   by   the   Railroad   Commission. 

A.  B.  619.  Harris.  Prescribing  a  certain  kind  of  water- 
glass  for  use  on  steam  locomotives;  providing  a  penalty  for 
neglect  to  use  such  glass,  and  prescribing  a  rule  of  evidence 
in   civil   suits   for  damages   occasioned  by   such   negligence. 

S.  B.  837.  Jones.  To  promote  the  safety  of  employees  and 
the  traveling  public  upon  railroads  by  prohibiting  certain  per- 
sons, firms  and  corporations  operating  railroads  in  this  State 
from  requiring  or  permitting  any  engineer,  fireman,  conductor, 
brakeman  or  trainman  to  receive,  deliver  or  transmit  over 
telegraph  or  telephone  lines  any  orders  for  the  movement  of 
trains,  except  in  case  of  urgency,  and  declaring  violation 
hereof  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  not  exceeding  $500.00 
or  by  imprisonment  not   exceeding  6  months,   or  both. 

S.  B.  1064.  Thompson.  Authorizing  the  placing  of  notice  of 
warning  upon  the  roadway  of  railroads,  and  providing  that  the 
disregarding  of  said  notice  of  warning  shall  be  presumptive 
evidence  of  negligence  upon  the  part  of  a  person  injured  or 
killed  in  disregard  of  said   notice  of  warning. 

A.  B.  1447.  Arnerich.  To  regulate  the  height  of  all  passenger 
car  steps  of  all  street  railways  in  municipalities  of  the  Stat© 
of  California. 

Provides  that  lowest  step  shall  be  not  more  than  nine  in- 
ches above  the  roadbed,  and  declares  violation  a  misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  927.  Gelder.  Amending  Sections  1,  2  and  3  of  an 
Act,  approved  February  20,  1911,  and  amended  May  24,  1913, 
to  promote  the  safety  of  employees  and  travelers  upon  rail- 
roads by  compelling  common  carriers  by  railroad  to  properly 
man  their  trains,  and   repealing  Section  7   thereof. 

S.  B.  781.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Act,  approved  February  20, 
1911,  amended  May  24,  1913,  to  promote  the  safety  of  em- 
ployees and  travelers  upon  railroads  by  compelling  common 
carriers  by  railroad  to  properly  man  their  trains,  by  amending 
Sections  1,  2  and  3  and  repealing  Section  7. 

REAL    ESTATE    BROKERS,    REGULATION    OF, 

(See    Brokers.) 


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RECLAMATION     AND     DRAINAGE. 

A.    B.    62.      Tabler.      Creating    a    reclamation    district    to    be 
called  and   known  as   "Big  Valley  Reclamation   District". 
S.  B.  554.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.  B.  62.     Tabler. 

A.  B.  220.  Tabler.  Creating  a  reclamation  district  to  be 
called  and  known  as  "Upper  Lake  Reclamation  District;"  pro- 
viding for  the  management  and  control  thereof  and  dissolving 
all  reclamation  districts  lying  wholly  within  the  boundaries  of 
said  Uppe  Lake  Reclamation  District,  and  excluding  from  any 
reclamation  district  any  land  lying  within  the  boundaries  of 
said  Upper  Lake  Reclamation  District. 

A.  B.  221.  Tabler.  Creating  a  reclamation  district  to  be 
called  and  known  as  "Tule  Lake  Reclamation  District;"  pro- 
viding for  the  management  and  control  thereof  and  dissolving 
all  reclamation  districts  lying  wholly  within  the  boundaries  of 
said  Tule  Lake  Reclamation  District,  and  providing  for  the 
liquidation  and  winding  up  of  said  dissolved  districts,  and  ex- 
cluding from  any  reclamation  district  any  land  lying  within 
the  boundaries  of  said  Tule  Lake  Reclamation  District. 

S.  B.  556.     Scott.     Identical  with  A.   B.  221.     Tabler. 

S.  B.  631,  Benson.  To  create  a  river  control  and  drainage 
district,  to  be  called  Sutter  Basin  River  Control  and  Drain- 
age District;  to  provide  for  the  control  and  improvement  of 
the  Sacramento  river,  and  to  promote  drainage  in  said  dis- 
trict by  the  construction  of  by-passes,  and  of  levees,  ditches, 
dams,  dikes,  canals  and  other  works  for  the  control  and  im- 
provement of  the  Sacramento  river,  and  the  control  of  the 
flood  waters  thereof,  and  the  drainage  of  lands  in  said  dis- 
trict; to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  officers  of  said  dis- 
tricts; defining  the  powers,  duties  and  compensation  of  such 
officers;  and  providing  for  levying  and  collecting  assessments 
upon  the  lands  within  said  district;  the.  issuance  of  bonds  by 
said  district,  and  testing  the  validity  of  the  levy  of  such  as- 
sessments and   the   issuance  of  such   bonds. 

A.  B.  759.  Ream  (by  request).  Identical  with  S.  B.  631. 
Benson. 

S.  B.  634.  Benson.  Amending  an  Act  creating  a  reclamation 
district  to  be  called  and  known  as  "Reclamation  District  No. 
1500";  providing  for  the  management  and  control  thereof  and 
dissolving  all  levee  districts,  swamp  land  districts,  and  recla- 
mation districts,  lying  wholly  within  the  boundaries  of  said 
Reclamation  District  No.  1500,  providing  for  the  liquidation 
and  winding  up  of  said  dissolved  districts,  and  excluding  from 
any  levee  district,  swamp  land  district  and  reclamation  district 
any  land  lying  within  the  boundaries  of  said  Reclamation 
District    No.     1500. 

A.    B.   831.      Browne    (by   request).     Identical   with   S.    B.    634 
Benson. 


294  PENDING  '  LEGISLATION,-  1915; 

S.  B.  722.  Benson.  Amending  Sections  1,  3,  5,  6,  7,  9,  10,  11, 
12,  13,  14,  15,  16V2,  17  and  18  of  an  Act,  approved  December 
24th,  1911,  amended  May  26th,  1913,  approving  the  report  of 
the  California  Debris  Commission  transmitted  to  the  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  by  the  Secretary  of 
War  on  June  27th,  1911,  directing  the  approval  of 
plans  of  reclamation  1  along  the  Sacramento  river  pr 
its  tributaries  or  upon  the  swamp  lands  adjacent  to 
said  river,  directing  the  State  Engineer  to  procure  data  and 
make  surveys  and  examinations  for  the  purpose  of  perfecting 
the  plans  contained  in  said  report  of  the  California  Debris  Com- 
mission and  to  make  report  thereof,  making  an-  appropriation 
to  pay  the  expenses  of  such  examinations  and  .surveys,^  and 
creating  a  reclamation  board  and  defining  its  powers;  and  add- 
ing thirteen  new  sections  to  said  Act  to  be  numbered  20,  21,  22, 

23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  30,  31  and  32,  relating  to  the  organi- 
zation,, powers  and  duties  of  said  reclamation  board,  and  create 
ing  a.  revolving  fund  and  appropriating  money  therefor. 

A.    B.    793.     Wright.      Identical   with    9.    B.    722,    Benson. 

S.  B.  745.  Benson.  Amending  Section  4 -of  an  Act,  approved 
December  24,  1911;  amended  May  26,.  1^13,  approving  the  report 
of  the  California.  Debris  Commission  transmitted  to  the  Speaker 
of  the"  House  of .  Representatives  by  the  Secretary  of  War  on 
June  27thr  1911,  directing  the  approval  of  plans  of  reclamation 
along"  the  Sacramento  river  or  its  tributaries  or  upon  the 
swamp  lands  adjacent  to  said  river,  directing  the  State  Engi- 
neer to  procure  data  and  make  surveys  and  examinations  for 
the  purpose  of  perfecting  the  plans  contained  in  said  report 
of  the  California  Debris-  Commission  and  to  make  report 
thereof,  making  an  appropriation  to  pay  the  expenses  of  such 
examinations  and  surveys  and  creating  a  reclamation  board 
and  defining  its<  powers,  altering  and  extending  the  boundaries 
of  the  Sacramento  and  San  Joaauin  Drainage  District. 

A.  B.  886.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.   B.  745.     Benson. 

S.   B.    747.      Benson.      Amending  an   Act,    approved   December 

24,  1911,  amended  May  26,  1913,  approving  the  report  of  the 
California  Debris  Commission  transmitted  to  the  Speaker  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  by  the  Secretary  of  War  on 
June  27th,  1911,  directing  the  approval  of  plans  of  reclamation 
along  the  Sacramento  river  or  its  tributaries  upon  the  swamp 
lands  adjacent  to  said  river,  directing  the  State  Engineer  to 
procure  data  and  make  surveys  and  examinations  for  the  pur- 
pose of  perfecting  the  plans  contained  in  said  report  of  the 
California  Debris  Commission  and  to  make  report  thereof, 
making  an  appropriation  to  pay  the  expenses  of  said  examina- 
tions and  surveys,  and  creating  a  reclamation  board  and  de-- 
fining  its  powers,  by  adding  Section  33  thereto,  relating  to 
and   providing   for   the   issuance   and   disposal   of  bonds   of  the" 


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Sacramento  and  San  Joaquin  Drainage  District  and  testing  the 
validity  of  such  bonds. 

A.  B.  888.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.  B.  747.     Benson. 

S.  B.  788.  Purkitt.  To  provide  for  the  deposit  of  the  funds 
in  the  county  treasury,  for  the  presentation  to,  and  approval 
by  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  registration,  interest  upon,  time 
of  payment  and  receipt  in  payment  of  assessment  of  warrants, 
of  Reclamation  District  No.  108,  created  by  that  certain  Act 
of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  California,  approved  April 
23,  1913,  legalizing  the  consolidation  and  reorganization  of 
Reclamation  District  No.  729  with  Reclamation  District  No. 
108,  in  the  counties  of  Yolo  and  Colusa;  fixing,  defining  and 
establishing  the  boundaries  of  the  consolidated  district;  pro- 
viding for  its  management  and  control,  subject  to  the  provi- 
sions of  the  Political  Code  of  California,  and  to  other  laws 
of  said  State  relative  to  reclamation  districts;  and  repealing 
all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  therewith,  and  situated 
in  Colusa  and  Yolo  counties,  and  providing  that  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  of  the  county  of  Colusa  shall  have  jurisdiction  of 
all  matters  concerning  said  district  and  all  funds  of  said  dis- 
trict shall  be  deposited  with  the  county  treasurer  of  the  county 
of  Colusa. 

S.  B.  910.  Conn.  To  create  a  reclamation  district  to  be  called 
"Reclamation  District  No.  1660,"  and  providing  for  the  control 
and  management  thereof. 

A.   B.   1151.      Gebhart.     Identical  with  S.   B.   910.     Cohn. 

S.  B.  932.  Carr.  To  validate  the  organization  and  forma- 
of  levee  districts. 

A.  B.  1080.  Sisson.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  April  30, 
1913,  entitled,  "An  Act  to  create  a  drainage  district  to  be 
called  Knight's  Landing  Ridge  Drainage  District,  to  promote 
drainage  therein  by  the  making  of  a  cut  through  Knight's 
Landing  Ridge  and  the  construction  of  a  canal  leading  there- 
from; to  provide  for  the  election  and  appointment  of  officers  of 
said  drainage  district;  defining  the  powers,  duties  and  compen- 
sation of  such  officers;  and  providing  for  levying  and  cellecting 
assessments  upon  the  lands  within  said  drainage  district;  the 
issuance  of  bonds  by  said  drainage  district  and  testing  the 
'  validity  of  the  levy  of  such  assessments  and  the  issuance  of 
such  bonds,"  by  amending  Section  1  thereof  and  making  the 
description  more  certain,  amending  Section  6  in  reference  to 
the  certifying  and  depositing  of  a  certified  copy  of  assessment, 
amending  Section  7  in  reference  to  the  Hen  of  said  assess- 
ment, and  also  in  regard  to  the  collection  of  the  assessments, 
issuance  of  warrants  and  the  payment  of  all  moneys  that 
may  be  collected  into  the  county  treasury  of  Yolo  County. 
S.  B.  950.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1080.     Sisson. 

.  A.    B.    1082.      Sisson.      Approving,    confirming    and    declaring 


296  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

valid  the  creation,  formation  and  organization  of  Reclama- 
tion District  No.  108,  created  by  an  Act  approved  April  23, 
1913,  legalizing  the  consolidation  and  reorganization  of  Recla- 
mation District  No.  729  with  Reclamation  District  No.  108,  in 
the   counties    of   Yolo   and    Colusa,    etc. 

S.   B.   951.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.   B.   1082.     Sisson. 

A.  B.  1149.  Gebhart.  Relating  to  the  assessments  levied 
under  and  by  virtue  of  an  Act  to  create  a  drainage  district 
to  be  called  "Sacramento  Drainage  District",  to  promote  drain- 
age therein,  to  provide  for  the  election  and  appointment  of 
officers   of  said   drainage   district,   etc. 

A.  B.  1150.  Gebhart.  Relating  to  the  transfer  of  money 
m>w  held  in  a  special  fund  created  under  and  by  virtue  of  an 
Act  entitled  an  Act  to  create  a  drainage  district  to  be  called 
"Sacramento  Drainage  District",  to  promote  drainage  therein, 
to  the  general  fund  of  the  counties  in  which  such  money  is  held. 

A.  B.  1161.  Edwards,  L.  Establishing  a  State  Reclamation 
District  for  the  conservation  of  water  for  the  safe  develop- 
ment of  the  State;  creating  a  State  Reclamation  Board  for 
the  administration  of  the  provisions  hereof;  defining  its  powers 
and  duties;  making  an  appropriation  therefor;  and  repealing 
all   Acts   in   conflict   herewith. 

S.  B.  1062.  Chandler.  Amending  Sections  28,  35  and  36 
of  an  Act  approved  March  20,  1903,  to  provide  for  the  organiza- 
tion and  government  of  drainage  districts,  for  the  drainage  of 
agricultural  lands  other  than  swamp  and  overflowed  lands, 
and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  construction  thereby  of 
works  for  the  drainage  of  the  lands  embraced  within  such 
districts. 

RECREATION. 

S.  B.  30.  Jones.  Creating  a  state  recreation  commission 
of  five  persons,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor  for  term  of 
four  years,  without  compensation;  providing  for  the  employ- 
ment by  said  commission  of  a  secretary  and  other  employees 
and  authorizing  said  commission  to  fix  their  compensation, 
prescribing  the  powers  and  duties  of  said  commission,  and 
appropriating  $20,000  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the# 
provisions    hereof. 

RIVER     IMPROVEMENT. 

A.  B.  692.  Gebhart.  To  provide  for  the  accomplishment  of 
the  work  of  the  direct  improvement  of  the  navigation  of  the 
Sacramento,  San  Joaquin  and  Feather  Rivers  of  the  State  of 
California,  as  recommended  in  the  special  report  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Debris  Commission,  dated  June  30,  1907,  and  made 
jointly    by    Brigadier    General    A.    Mackenzie,    Chief    of    Engi- 


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neers,  C.  H.  McKinstry,  Mayor,  Corps  of  Engineers,  and 
Thomas  H.  Jackson,  Captain,  Corps  of  Engineers,  of  the 
United  States  Army,  and  printed  with  the  annual  report  of 
the  Chief  of  Engineers  of  the  United  States  Army,  for  the 
fiscal  year  "ending  June  30,  1907,  and  making  an  appropriation 
for  such   work. 

S.  B.  746.  Benson.  To  authorize  the  immediate  use  and 
expenditure,  in  such  manner  and  to  such  extent  as  the  Gov- 
ernor may  direct,  of  the  sum  of  $200,000  appropriated  by  that 
certain  Act,  approved  June  7,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  accom- 
plishment of  the  work  of  the  direct  improvement  of  the  navi- 
gation of  the  Sacramento,  San  Joaquin  and  Feather  rivers  of 
the  State  of  California,  as  recommended  in  the  special  report 
of  thft  California  Debris  Commission,  dated  June  30,  1907,  and 
made  jointly  by  Brigadier  General  A.  Mackenzie,  chief  of  engi- 
neers; C.  H.  McKinstry,  major,  corps  of  engineers,  and  Thomas 
H.  Jackson,  captain,  corps  of  engineers,  of  the  United  States 
army,  and  printed  with  the  annual  report  of  the  chief  of  engi- 
neers of  the  United  States  army,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
June  30,   1907,  and  making  an  appropriation  for  such  work. 

A.   B.  887.     Wright,  T.  M.     Identical  with  S.   B.  746.     Benson. 

RURAL    CREDITS. 

S.  B."  159.  Brown.  Providing  for  the  formation  of  land 
banks  and  prescribing  regulations  for  the  conduct  of  their 
affairs. 

S.  B.  37.  To  provide  for  the  incorporation,  management 
and    dissolution    of   rural    credit   unions. 

Defines  "rural  credit  union"  as  co-operative  association 
formed  to  promote  thrift  among  members  and  to  enable  them 
to  obtain  for  productive  purposes  moderate  loans  of  money 
for  short  periods  at  reasonable  rates  of  interest.  Ten  or  more 
citizens  may  organize,  with  capital  stock  at  $25  per  share; 
may  receive  savings  of  members  in  payment  for  shares,  lend 
money  to  members  at  not  to  exceed  6  per  cent  interest,  and 
invest  funds;  to  be  under  jurisdiction  of  Superintendent  of 
Banks.  The  rules  for  organization,  operation  and  dissolution 
are  fully  set  forth. 

S.  B.  329.  Birdsall.  Providing  for  the  incorporation  and 
management  of  land  loan  associations,  for  a  commission  to 
supervise  such  associations,  and  making  an  appropriation 
therefor. 

Creates  "California  State  Commission  of  Land  Loans," 
composed  of  Attorney-General,  State  Treasurer  and  State 
Controller,  who  shall  within  90  days  after  passage  of  Act  ap- 
point a  land  loan  commissioner  and  such  other  officers  and 
assistants   as   shall   be   necessary,    and    fix   their   compensation. 


298  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Land  loan  commissioner  given  power  to  examine  all  land 
loan   associations   the   creation  of  which   is  authorized. 

State  commissioner  of  land  loans  shall  have  power  to  or- 
ganize and  charter  land  loan  associations,  review  and  alter 
rate  of  interest  to  be  charged,  to  grant  or  refuse  associations 
authority  to  issue  land  loan  bonds  and  to  fix  rate  of  interest 
thereon,  to  recommend  to  State  Treasurer  purchase  of  land 
loan  bonds;  to  require  reports  and  statements  and  to  make 
examinations  of  land  loan  associations;  to  appraise  lands 
through   land   loan    commissioner. 

Not  less  than  ten  persons  may  organize  land  loan  associa- 
tions with  capital  stock  of  not  less  than  $10,000,  divided  into 
shares  of  $25  each;  to  loan  money  to  stockholders  only  on 
land  within  a  certain  "land  loan  district"  to  be  designated 
by  the  land  loan  commissioner,  who  if  he  grant  application  to 
organize,  shall  issue  a  certificate  therefor.  The  Act  provides 
that  the  certificate  shall  state  the  name  of  the  association, 
the  district  within  which  it  may  operate,  the  amount  of 
capital  stock  and  number  of  shares,  the  names  and  residences 
and  number  of  shares  of  the  stockholders,  and  that  the  cer- 
tificate is  issued  under  the  Act;  individuals  may  subscribe  for 
stock  on  partial  payment  plan,  but  no  certificate  to  be  issued 
until  fully  paid  up;  fifty  per  cent  of  capital  stock  must  be  paid 
in  cash  before  association  is  authorized  to  do  business,,  and  at 
least  ten  per  cent  of  capital  stock  at  time  of  organization 
shall  be  invested  in  United  States  bonds,  remainder  of  stock 
may  be  paid  in   first  mortgages  on  lands  of  stockholders. 

Provision  shall  be  made  by  each  land  loan  association  for 
increase  of  its  capital  stock  from  time  to  time  for  purpose  of 
acquiring  additional  cash  funds  or  for  issue  of  shares  to  bor- 
rowers; capital  stock  may  also  be  reduced  to  any  sum  not 
below  amount  required  for  organization,  except  that  capital 
may  not  be  reduced  below  one-twentieth  of  amount  unpaid 
on  outstanding  mortgages,  nor  shall  reduction  be  made  until 
amount  has  been  reported  to  and  approved  by  land  loan 
commissioner. 

A  board  of  directors  of  not  less  than  five  shall  be  elected, 
which  shall  appoint  two  of  its  members  as  an  "appraisal 
committee,"  with  one  person  named  by  land  loan  commis- 
sioner, who  shall  not  be  a  stockholder  of  any  land  loan  asso- 
ciation,  to  appraise   all  land  upon  which  loans  are  asked. 

Land  loan  associations  shall  have  power  to  loan  current 
funds  on  first  mortgages  on  lands  of  members  within  its  loan 
district,  to  buy  other  land  loan  association  endorsed  first  mort- 
gages; to  buy  and  sell  land  loan  bonds;  to  buy  and  sell  United 
States  bonds;  to  acquire  a  suitable  house  for  the  transaction 
of  its  business;  to  buy  and  sell  land  acquired  in  satisfaction  of 
mortgages,  but  only  in  accordance  with  provisions  of  this  Act. 


PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  299 

Applications  for  loans  shall  be  made  only  on  prescribed 
forms,  and  .loans  shall  be  made "  only  when  ~  secured  by  first 
mortgages" 'to"  run  for  not  less  than  five  nOr  more  than  thirty 
years,  bearing  interest  at  legal  rate,  on  lands  in  loan  district, 
containing  agreement  for  reduction  of  loan  through  semi- 
annual amortization  payments,  and  providing  for  extinguish- 
ment at  option  of  borrower  after  five  years  from  date  made. 

Loans  to  be  made  only:  to  liquidate  indebtedness  of  owner  of 
land  mortgaged  existing  at  time  of  organization  of  land  loan 
association;  for  improvement  of  lands,  to  provide  for  purchase 
of  equipment  and  live  stock  necessary  for  proper  operation 
of  farm;    to   provide   for   purchase   of  home. 

No  loan  shall  exceed  50  per  cent  of  value,  of  land  and  25 
per  cent  of  value  of  buildings  to  be  ascertained  by  appraisal; 
ncr  shall  any  loan  be  made  to  any  person  not  at  the  time  a 
bona  '-fide  resident  on  land  mortgaged  or  in  case  of  a  farm 
primarily  engaged  in  cultivation  thereof;  nor  shall  any  loan 
exceed  $4000  to-any  one  borrower  or  20  per  cent  of  capital  and 
surplus  of  association  making  it. 

Every  borrower  shatl  agree  to  pay  all  taxes  when  due  and 
■  to  keep  property  insured,,  loss  payable  to  mortgagee;  and  that 
■in"  -'-case  any  portion  of  loan  shall  be  expended  for  purposes 
other  than  those  specified  in  original  application,-  or  if  he 
default  in  "respect  to.  any  condition  of  mortgage  loan  shall 
immediately   become   due   and   payable. 

When  associations'  organized  to:make  loans  on  unencum- 
bered" lands  in  this  "State  are  certified  by  land  loan  commis- 
sioner to  afford  holders  of  first  mortgages  protection  and 
assurance  of  safety  equal  to  that  provided  under-  this  Act, 
State  land  loan  commission  may  authorize  State  Treasurer  to 
purchase  first  mortgage  bonds- thereof -with  their  endorsement 
and  that  of  such  bank  or  banks-  in  land  loan  district  as  may 
be  designated  by  commission;  banks  to  be  compensated  for 
endorsement  at  .rate  of  .one  per  cent  per  year  on  face  value  of 
hon&s,  this  per.  cent  to  be  added  to  annual  rate  to  be  paid 
by  borrower;  land  loan  commission  shall  make  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  such  associations. 

.Appraisers  shall  .  be  appointed  by  .  land,  loan  commissioner, 
one  or  more  .of  whpm  shall  at  stated  periods  visit  every  land 
loan,  district  and.  make  report;  on  values  of  lands  therein,  and 
.  a  schedule  stating,  maximum  .acre  or  town  lot  valuation  for 
each  loan  district  shall  be  prepared,  .which  schedule  shall  not 
be   exceeded   in   making   loans. 

Applications    for  -loans    shall    be    made    on    prescribed    forms 

and  presented  to  land  loan  association,  which,  after  appraising 

^  4andr, shall.. take  note,  and  mortgage,  thereon,   endorse   note  and 

present  it   with   mortgage.,  to   local,  bank,  .  which   shall   in   turn 

endorse   note   and   present   it   with   mortgage    to   commissioner, 


3Q0  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

who,  after  approving  it,  shall  deliver  it  to  State  Treasurer  to 
be  held  in  trust  by  him,  and  bonds  in  like  amount  to  be 
issued  against  it. 

Land  loan  bonds  shall  be  issued  in  amounts  of  $100,  $500 
and  $1000,  to  run  for  specified  maximum  periods,  in  series  of 
not  less  than  $1000,  bearing  interest  at  not  to  exceed  5  per- 
cent, payable  out  of  funds  deposited  by  mortgagees  for  that 
purpose. 

First  mortgages  presented  as  collateral  for  issue  of  bonds 
shall  be  accompanied  by  schedule  showing  face  of  mortgages, 
dates  due,  and  gross  amount  of  amortization  installments, 
payable  monthly  in  cash.  Land  loan  associations  shall  deposit 
monthly  with  designated  local  bank  for  deposit  with  State 
Treasurer  in  an  amount  equal  to  gross  amortization  install- 
ments and  interest  as  shown  by  schedule,  either  land  loan 
bonds  issued  by  itself,  first  mortgages  of  same  kinds  as  those 
originally  deposited,  or  cash  or  current  funds. 

Every  land  loan  association  shall  carry  out  of  earnings,  to^a 
reserve  account,  a  sum  not  less  than  2  per  cent  of  its  capital 
or  one-fourth  of  its  earnings  until  reserve  account  equals  20 
per  cent  of  outstanding  capital  stock,  against  which  shall  be 
debited  all  losses  due  to  return  or  redemption  of  mortgages. 
Whenever  net  earnings,  after  crediting  one-fourth  to  reserve 
account,  shall  amount  to  2  per  cent  on  face  value  of  capital 
stock  association  may  declare  a  dividend,  which  may  be  in- 
creased as  earnings  permit  to  six  per  cent;  any  earnings 
above  cumulative  six  per  cent  dividend  shall  be  carried  to 
reserve   fund. 

State  Treasurer  may  upon  application  of  one  or  more  desig- 
nated local  banks  and  upon  recommendation  of  commission 
purchase  from  local  banks  land  bonds  not  previously  issued  or 
sold,   not  to   exceed   in  amount   $5,000,000. 

Local  land  association  examiners  shall  be  appointed  by  com- 
missioner to  examine  condition  of  associations,  physical  con- 
dition of  properties  and  check  up  books  and  records  and  re- 
port to  commissioner  at  least  once  a  year;  no  examiner  shall 
perform  any  other  service  for  compensation  by  any  land  loan 
association,  or  any  officer,  director,  or  employee  thereof,  nor 
shall  he   disclose   the  names  of  borrowers  without   permission. 

False  statements  in  applications  for  loan,  over-valuation 
by  appraiser,  or  acceptance  by  any  examiner  of  a  loan  or 
gratuity  from  any  land  loan  association  examined  by  him  or 
from  any  officer,  director  or  employee  thereof,  the  acceptance 
by  an  officer,  director  or  employee  of  a  land  loan  association 
of  any  fee,  commission,  gift  or  other  consideration  for  or  in 
connection  with  any  transaction  or  business  of  such  associa- 
tion, and  the  disclosure  by  an  examiner  without  permission 
in  writing  from  the  commissioner,  or  by  order  of  court,  of  the 


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name  of  any  borrower,  are  declared  misdemeanors,  punishable 
by  imprisonment  not  to  exceed  one  year,  or  fine  of  not  more 
than  $5000,  or  both;  and  in  case  of  examiner  receiving  loan  or 
gratuity  a  further  fine  not  to  exceed  the  amount  thereof  and 
perpetual  disqualification  to  hold  office  as  examiner. 

If  any  land  loan  association  refuses  to  substitute  mortgages 
for  others  formerly  sold  to  a  local  bank  or  to  State  Treasurer 
on  which  default  had  occurred,  or  fails  to  meet  its  outstanding 
obligations  when  due,  or  is  in  default,  the  land  commissioner 
may  appoint  a  receiver  to  take  charge  and  dispose  of  the 
property  of  such  association,  turning  the  proceeds  into  the 
State  Treasury  subject  to  order  of  commissioner;  upon  default 
of  any  obligation  local  bank  making  land  loan  endorsement 
may  be  declared  insolvent  and  placed  in  hands  of  a  receiver. 

$50,000  is  appropriated  to  carry  out  provisions  of  Act. 

SALT     MARSH-TIDE    LANDS,    CESSION     AND    RECESSION. 

A.  B.  18.  Schmitt.  Granting  to  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco  certain  tide  lands,  marsh  lands  and  submerged  lands 
of  the  State  of  California,  within  the  boundaries  of  said  City 
and  County,  including  the  right  to  wharf  out  therefrom; 
regulating  the  management,  use  and  control  thereof,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  deposit  w-ith  the  State  of  Californa  of  certain 
bonds  to  protect  the  State  of  California  from  any  loss  which 
might  accrue  to  said  State  by  reason  of  outstanding  bonds 
for  the  use  and  purpose  of  the  harbor  front  of  San  Francisco. 

A.  B.  317.  McPherson.  Granting  to  the  City  of  Santa  Cruz 
the  salt  marsh,  tide  and  submerged  lands  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, including-  the  right  to  wharf  out  therefrom  to  the  City 
of  Santa  Cruz,  and  regulating  the  management,  use  and  con- 
trol  thereof. 

A.  B.  334.  Brown,  H.  W.  Granting  to  the  town  of  Red- 
wood City  the  salt  marsh,  tide  and  submerged  lands  of  the 
State  of  California,  including  the  right  to  wharf  out  therefrom, 
and   regulating  the   management,    use   and   control   thereof. 

A.  B.  485.  Brown,  H.  W.  Granting  to  the  City  of  Bur- 
lingame  the  salt  marsh,  tide  and  submerged  lands  of  the  State 
of  California,  including  the  right  to  wharf  out  therefrom,  and 
regulating  the  management,   use  and   control  thereof. 

A.  B.  486.  Brown,  H.  W.  Granting  to  the  City  of  San  Mateo 
the  salt  marsh,  tide  and  submerged  lands  of  the  State  of 
California,  including  the  right  to  wharf  therefrom,  and  regu- 
lating the  management,  use  and  control  thereof. 

A.  B.  370.  Rominger.  Amending  Sections  5,  6  and  7  of  an 
Act  approved  March  21,  1903,  to  promote  the  drainage  of  wet, 
swamp  and  overflowed  lands,  and  to  promote  the  public  health 
in  the  communities  in  which  they  lie. 

A.    B.    1096.     Conrad.     Amending   Section   5    of .  an  Act   ap- 


302  .PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

proved  May  1,  1911,  conveying  certain  tide  lands  and  lands 
lying  under  inland  navigable  waters  in  the  bay  of  San  Diego, 
to  the  city  of  San  Diego,  in  furtherance  of  navigation  and 
commerce  and  the  fisheries,  and  providing  for  the  government 
management  and  control  thereof,  relating  to  the  granting  of 
franchises  on  the  lands  conveyed  by  said  Act  and  the  leas- 
ing of  the   same   by   the   city  of   San   Diego. 

A.  B.  57.  Gelder.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  June  11, 
1913,  entitled  "An  Act  granting  to  the  city  of  Berkeley  the 
salt  marsh,  tide  and  submerged  lands  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, including  the  right  to  wharf  out  therefrom  to  the  city 
of  Berkeley,  and  regulating  the  management,  use  and  con- 
trol   thereof. 

S.  B.  991.  Owens.  Confirming,  ratifying  and  adopting  a 
certain  agreement  by  the  city  of  Richmond  concerning  its 
harbor,  harbor  lines  and  certain  tide  and  submerged  lands, 
and-  granting  it  certain,  submerged  land  and  authorizing 
it  to  convey  certain  small  parcels  of  such  land  not  needed 
for  commerce  and  navigation. 

SANITARY     DISTRICTS. 

A.  B.  758.  Manning.  To  validate  the  organization  of  sanitary 
districts  and  their  proceedings  whereby  the  boundaries  thereof 
were  altered,  and  outlying  contiguous  territory  in  the  same 
county  as  such  sanitary  district  annexed  thereto. 

A.  B.  1391.  Manning.  To  provide  for  the  formation,  gov- 
ernment, operation,  alteration  of  boundaries  of  districts  al- 
ready formed,  reorganization  and  dissolution  of  sanitary  dis- 
tricts in  any  part  of  the  State,  for  the  construction  of  sewers, 
septic  tanks,  and  other  sanitary  disposal  of  sewerage  matter; 
the  acquisition  of  property  thereby,  the  calling  and  conducting 
of  elections  in  such  districts;  the  assessment,  levying,  collec- 
tion, custody,  and  disbursement  of  taxes  therein,  the  issuance, 
disposal  and  retirement  of  the  bonds  thereof,  and  the  deter- 
mination of  their  validity  and  making  provision  for  the  pay- 
ment of  such  bonds,  and  the  disposal  of  their  proceeds. 

SCHOOLS. 

<See    Pensions;    Teachers;    Political    Code.) 
S.    B.    100.      Carr.      Confirming   and   validating   the   organiza- 
tion of  school   districts. 
.  A.    B.    147.      Schmitt.      Establishing    a    nautical    school    and 
for    the   appointment   of   a   board    of   commissioners   who    shall 
manage  the   same. 

Creates  a  state  nautical  school  commission  of  three  per- 
sons to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor  for  term  of  four  years, 
and  to  serve  without  compensation;  they  shall  establish  and 
.maintain    a    nautical    school    for    instruction    and    training    In 


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science  and  practice  of  navigation;  provide  accommodations 
for  school  on  board  proper  vessel;  provide  books,  stationery, 
apparatus  and  supplies,  appoint  and  remove  instructors  and 
other  necessary  employees,  determine  their  number  and  com- 
pensation, fix  terms  and  conditions  on  which  pupils  will  be 
received  and  instructed,  establish  all  necessary  rules,  provida 
for  cruises  in  or  from  the  harbor  of  San  Francisco,  receive 
from  United  States  Government  such  vessels  as  may  be  de- 
tailed for  use  of  the  schools;  and  expend  such  sums  as  may 
be  appropriated  under  this  act  or  by  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment pursuant  to  "An  Act  for  the  establishment  of  Marine 
Schools  and  for  other  purposes,"  H.  R.  24145,  approved  March 
4,    1911.      Appropriates    $20,000    to    carry    out    provisions. 

A.  B.  451.  Sisson.  Establishing  a  State  vocational  school 
in  the  City  of  Red  Bluff,  State  of  California,  or  in  the  imme- 
diate vicinity  of  said  city,  to  be  known  as  the  "Northern  Cali- 
fornia Vocational  School,"  and  making  an  appropriation 
therefor. 

A.  B.  742.  Kerr.  To  authorize  the  boards  of  trustees  of 
the  Preston  School  of  Industry  and  the  Whittier  State  School 
to  provide  for  the  disposition  of  the  products  of  the  skill  and 
labor  of  the  pupils  confined  therein. 

S.  B.  791.  Beban.  To  require  physical  culture  and  health 
development  supervision  in  the  public  schools  and  to  repeal 
Section  1668,  Political  Code,  and  all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  in 
conflict  with  this  Act. 

A.  B.  939.  Fish.  To  provide  for  visual  instruction  in  the 
public  schools  of  the  State  under  the  supervision  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education  and  appropriating  $12,500  therefor. 

S.  B.  936.     Carr.     Identical   with    A.    B.    939.      Fish. 

S.  B.  887.  Breed.  Relating  to  the  joint  board  of  normal 
school  trustees. 

S.  B.  944.  Cogswell.  Authorizing  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Whittier  State  School  to  maintain  a  department  for  the  care 
and  training  of  male  defectives  at  the  Whittier  State  School 
and  to  provide  for  the  commitment  of  defectives  thereto. 

S.  B.  1017.  Cogswell.  To  create  a  State  Board  of  School 
Appeals  and  defining  its  duties  and  powers  and  providing  for 
the  enforcement  of  its  decisions. 

S.  B.  479,  Gerdes.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act  approved 
June  14,  1913,  to  establish  a  State  training  school  for  girls; 
to  provide  for  the  maintenance  and  management  of  the  same; 
and  to  make  an  appropriation  therefor,  relating  to  election 
of  officers  of  board  of  trustees  and  appointment  of  superin- 
tendent, providing  that  none  but  a  member  of  the  board 
shall   be  elected   president  or  vice-president   thereof. 

A.  B.  741.  Kerr.  Amending  Section  10  of  an  Act  approved 
March.  11,  1899,  amended  February  27,  1893,  to  establish  a  school 


304  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

of  industry,  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  and  management  of 
the  same,  and  to  make  an  appropriation  therefor,  relating  to 
compensation  of  board  and  salaries  and  wages  of  officers  and 
employees. 

A.  B.  1356.  Downing  (by  request).  To  establish  a  model 
teachers'  training  school  at  Berkeley,  California,  providing  th& 
rules  and  regulations  therefor,  and  revenue  for  the  support 
of  same. 

SEWER    DISTRICTS. 

(See    Municipal    Corporations.) 

S.  B.  USD.  Benedict.  Amending  an  Act  to  amend  Sections 
1,  2,  3,  4  and  5  of  an  Act  approved  April  14,  1911,  to  provide 
for  the  division  of  municipalities  into  sewer  districts  and  for 
the  construction  of,  or  acquisition  and  maintenance  of  sewers 
therein;  providing  a  system  of  district  sewer  bonds  to  pay  the 
cost  of  such  construction  of,  or  acquisition,  and  also  for  the 
payment   of  such   bonds.     (Introduced   by  title  only.) 

SHIP    SUBSIDY. 

A.  B.  291.  Schmitt  (by  request).  Providing  for  the  encour- 
agement of  ship  building  within  the  State  of  California;  for 
the  appointment  of  a  board  of  five  commissioners,  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor,  at  a  salary  of  $5000  each  per 
year,  for  a  term  of  four  years,  and  who  shall  give  a  bond 
of  $20,000  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties,  and 
appropriating    $500,000    therefor. 

The  commission  shall  appoint  a  secretary  at  $250  per  month 
and  maintain  an  office  in  San  Francisco;  they  shall  immediate- 
ly upon  written  application  of  owners  of  ships  built  in  Cali- 
fornia and  to  be  used  in  freight  or  passenger  service,  examine 
such  vessel  and  thereafter  pay  to  the  owners  out  of  the  ship- 
building fund  5  per  cent  per  annum  upon  one-half  of  the  cost 
of  building  such  vessel,  but  no  payment  to  be  made  until  after 
the  vessel  shall  have  been  actually  engaged  in  foreign  trade 
for  at  least  six  months;  and  shall  also  pay  to  the  owners  the 
difference  in  operating  cost  between  American  and  foreign 
standards. 

STEAM     BOILERS     AND     ENGINEERING. 

S.  B.  328.  Flaherty.  Regulating  the  practice  or  occupation 
of  steam  engineering  in  the  State  of  California;  providing  for 
the  registration  and  licensing  of  persons  to  carry  on  such 
practice  or  occupation;  providing  for  a  board  of  examiners 
and  a  clerk  thereof,  to  be  under  the  supervision  and  manage- 
ment of  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics; 
fixing  the  terms,  compensation,  powers  and  duties  of  the  clerk 


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and  the  members  of  said  board  of  examiners;  fixing  the  fees 
to  be  paid  by  persons  authorized  to  practice  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act;  and  creating  a  fund  to  be  kept  by  the 
State  Treasurer  for  the  purposes  of  this  Act. 

Requires  every  person  following  occupation  of  steam  engi- 
neer in  this  State,  except  steam  engineers  on  locomotives, 
automobiles  or  other  steam  propelled  vehicles,  or  persons 
operating  boilers  under  jurisdiction  of  United  States  Govern- 
ment, or  boilers  less  than  four  horsepower,  boilers  used  in 
logging  camps,  or  in  dairies  or  agricultural  pursuits,  or  in 
pumping  or  boring  wells  for  Oil  or  water,  where  in  charge  of 
a  skilled  foreman,  within  90  days  after  Act  takes  effect,  to  file 
with  clerk  of  board  of  examiners  application  for  certificate 
of  registration,  accompanied  with  fee  of  $5,  and  requires  is- 
suance of  such  certificate  without  examination;  creates  board 
of  three  examiners  to  be  appointed  by  Commissioner  of  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics,  from  practical  steam  engineers  of  at  least 
ten  years'  experience;  chief  examiner  to  receive  not  less  than 
$^400  per  annum,  and  two  assistant  examiners  not  less  than 
$2000  per  year  each;  examiners  to  file  bonds  of  $2000  each; 
examiners  to  hold  examinations  in  various  parts  of  State  from 
time  to  time  of  all  applicants  for  certificates;  each  examiner 
to  have  power  to  grant  licenses  to  persons  duly  qualified,  and 
to  have  power  to  visit  all  engine  and  boiler  rooms  in  remote 
sections  of  State;  owners  or  operators  of  steam  plants  per- 
mitted to  operate  for  30  days  without  licensed  engineer  upon 
notifying  examiner  or  clerk  of  board  in  writing;  certificates 
may  be  suspended  for  wilful  neglect  of  duty,  incompetency, 
or  drunkenness  while  on  duty;  fee  for  examination  $5,  to  be 
deposited  with  application;  if  applicant  fails  he  may  take 
another  examination  within  3  months  without  payment  of  addi- 
tional fee;  certificates  to  be  prominently  displayed  in  place 
where  holder  is  employed  and  to  be  renewed  annually  upon 
payment  of  $2;  declares  it  a  misdemeanor  to  operate  as  steam 
engineer   without    proper   license. 

A.  B.  512— Rodgers.     Identical  with  S.  B.  32S.     Flaherty. 

A.  B.  452.     Kennedy.     Identical  with   S.   B."  328.     Flaherty. 

STREET     IMPROVEMENT. 

S.  B.  731.  Shearer.  Creating  and  establishing  a  commission 
to  codify,  revise  and  perfect  the  law  of  the  State  concerning 
roads,  streets,  highways  and  bridges;  prescribing  the  powers 
and  duties  of  said  commission;  providing  for  the  expense  of 
said    commission   and   appropriating   money   therefor. 

S.  B.  609.  Carr.  To  provide  for  the  issuance  Of  street  im- 
provement bonds  to  represent  and  be  secured  by  certain  as- 
sessments made  for  the  cost  of  certain  work  and  improve- 
ments made  in  and  upon  streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts, 


306  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

places  and  sidewalks  within  municipalities  and  upon  property 
and  rights  of  way  owned  by  municipalities,  to  provide  for  the 
collection  of  such  assessments,  the  sale  of  the  property  se- 
cured thereby  and  for  the  payment  of  the  bonds  so  issued. 

A.  B.  1083.  Sisson.  To  provide  for  reassessments  by 
municipal  corporations  on  property  benefited  by  street  work 
done  under  authority  of  the  governing  bodies  thereof;  pro- 
viding for  the  method  of  making  and  collecting  such  assess- 
ments and  for  the  payment  of  contractors  and  others  per- 
forming labor  or  supplying  materials  for  the  work  done  out  of 
funds  so  raised   or  bonds  issued  by  municipal  corporations. 

S.   B.   1007.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.  B.   1083.     Sisson. 

S.  B.  1085.  Jones.  Making  each  city,  county,  or  city  and 
county,  liable  in  an  action  for  damages  for  injury  sustained 
in  consequence  of  the  dangerous  or  defective  condition  of  any 
street,  highway,  public  building,  public  work  or  property  there- 
in; and  limiting  the  liability  to  public  officers  in  respect  thereto. 

S.  B.  1155.  Benedict.  To  provide  for  the  improvement  by 
any  city  of  streets,  lanes,  alleys,  courts  and  rights  of  way  in 
such  city  by  the  assessment  of  the  cost  of  any  such  improve- 
ment upon  the  property  located  within  a  district  determined 
to  be  benefited  thereby,  and  for  the  collection  of  such  assess- 
ments and  for  the  issuance  of  bonds  to  represent  such  assess- 
ments. 

A.  B.  1231.  Fish.  To  provide  for  the  improvement  by  any  city 
of  streets,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  rights  of  way  in 
such  city  by  the  assessment  of  the  cost  of  any  such  improve- 
ment upon  the  property,  etc. 

A.  B.  1477.  Manning.  To  provide  for  work  in  and  upon  high- 
ways, streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  side- 
walks in  counties,  and  upon  property  and  rights  of  way  owned 
by  counties,  and  for  establishing  and  changing  the  grade  of 
the  same,  etc. 

S.  B.  1183.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an  Act  approved  March  18,  1885,  to  provide  for  work  upon 
streets,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks,  and  for 
the  construction  of  sewers  within  municipalities.  (Introduced 
by  title  only.) 

S.  B.  612.  Carr.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  18,  1885,  to  provide  for  work  upon  streets,  lanes,  alleys, 
courts,  places  and  sidewalks,  and  for  the  construction  of  sewers 
within  municipalities. 

S.  B.  27.  Lyon.  Adding  a  new  section  to  be  numbered  6a 
to  an  Act  approved  March  18,  1885,  to  provide  for  work  upon 
streets,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks,  and  for 
the  construction  of  sewers  within  municipalities,  relating  to 
doing  of  public  work  by  municipalities.  Provides  that  mu- 
nicipalities   may    do    their    own    street  work,    the    actual    cost 


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only  to  be  charged  to  .benefited  property.  In  such  work  no 
patented   process   shall   be   used. 

S.  B.  941.  Flaherty.  Amending  an  Act  approved  March  18, 
1885,  to  provide  for  work  upon  streets,  lanes,  -alleys,  courts, 
places  and  sidewalks,  and  for  the  construction  of  sewers  with- 
in municipalities,  also  known  as  the  "Vrooman  Act,"  and  all 
Acts  amendatory  thereof  or  supplementary  thereto,  by  adding 
one  new  section  thereto,  to  be  numbered  Section  63,  provid- 
ing that  all  work  or  labor  done  or  performed  thereunder  shall 
be  limited  to  eight  hours  within  each  period  of  twenty-four 
hours. 

S.  B.  1186.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an  Act  approved  March  6,  1889,  to  provide  for  laying  out, 
opening,  extending,  widening,  straightening  or  closing  up,  in 
.  whole  or  in  part,  any  street,  square,  lane,  alley,  court  or 
place  within  municipalities,  and  to  condemn  and  acquire  any 
and  all  land  and  property  necessary  or  convenient  for  that 
purpose.     (Introduced  by  title  only.) 

A.  B.  780.  Burke.  Amending  Section  18  of  an  Act,  approved 
March   6r  1889,   to   provide   for   laying   out,    opening,    extending, 

•  widening,  straightening,  or  closing  up  in  whole  or-  in  part  any 
street,  square,  lane,  alley,  court,  or-  place  within  municipalities, 
and  to  condemn  and  acquire  any  and  all  land  and  property 
necessary  or  convenient  for  that  purpose. 

S.  B.  1022;     Anderson.     Identical  with  A.  B.   780.     Burke. 

S.  B.  1182.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an.  Act  approved  March  23,  1893,  to  provide  for  laying  but, 
opening,  extending,  widening,  straightening,  diverting,  curving, 
contracting,  or  closing  up,  in  whole  or  in  part,  any  street, 
square,  lane,  alley,  court,  or  place  within  municipalities  or 
cities,  and  cities  and  counties  of  40,000  inhabitants  or  over, 
and  to  condemn  and  acquire  any  and  all  land  and  property 
necessary  or  convenient  for  that  purpose.  (Introduced  by  title 
only.) 
•-S,  B.  1184.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an  Act  approved  February  26,  1901,  to  provide  .for  local 
improvements  upon  streets,  lanes,,  alleys,  courts,  places  and 
.  sidewalks*  and  for  the  construction  of .  sewers  within  "munic- 
ipalities, such  Act  to  be  known  as  "The  Local;  Improvement 
Act  of  1901."     (Introduced  by  title  only.) 

S.  B.  942.  Cogswell.  Amending  an  Act  approved  February 
26,  1901,  to  provide  for  local  improvement  upon  streets,  lanes, 
alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks,  arid  for  the  construction -of 

*  sewers  within  municipalities,  such  Act  to  be  known  as  "T-he 
Local  Improvement  Act  of  1901,"  by  adding  a  new  ^section 
thereto  to  be  known  as  Section  21a,  providing  for  the  altera- 
tion "of    plans,    profiles,    cross-sections    and    specifications"  and 


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providing  for  a  pro  rata  distribution  of  funds  raised  by  assess- 
ment in   case   the  improvement  is  abandoned. 

A.  B.  995.  Rominger.  Amending  an  Act  approved  February 
26,  1901,  to  provide  for  local  improvement  upon  streets,  lanes, 
alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks,  and  for  the  construction 
of  sewers  within  municipalities,  such  Act  to  be  known  as  "The 
Local  Improvement  Act  of  1901,"  by  adding  a  new  section 
thereto  to  be  known  as  Section  21a,  providing  for  the  altera- 
tion of  plans,  profiles,  cross-sections  and  specifications  and 
providing  for  a  pro  rata  distribution  of  funds  raised  by  assess- 
ment in   case  the  improvement  is  abandoned. 

S.  B.  1185.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an  Act  approved  March  24,  1903,  to  provide  for  the  laying 
out,  opening,  extending,  widening  or  straightening,  in  whole 
or  in  part,  of  public  streets,  squares,  lanes,  alleys,  courts  and 
places,  within  municipalities,  for  the  condemnation  of  prop- 
erty necessary  or  convenient  for  such  purposes,  and  for  the 
establishment  of  assessment  districts  and  the  assessment  of 
property  therein  to  pay  the  expense  of  such  improvement. 
(Introduced  by  title  only.) 

8.  B.  604.  Carr.  Amending  Sections  2,  8,  11  and  13  of  an 
Act,  approved  March  21,  1907,  as  subsequently  amended,  to 
provide  for  work  upon  public  roads,  streets,  avenues,  boule- 
vards, lanes  and  alleys  not  within  the  territory  of  incor- 
porated cities  or  towns;  for  the  incidental  establishment  of 
grades  thereof;  for  the  construction  therein  or  thereon  of 
sidewalks,  sewers,  manholes,  bridges,  cesspools,  gutters,  tun- 
nels, curbing,  and  crosswalks;  for  the  issue  of  bonds  represent- 
ing the  costs  and  expenses  thereof;  for  a  special  fund  derived  in 
part  from  the  county  road  fund  and  in  part  by  special  assess- 
ment upon  a  district,  and  for  the  establishment  of  such  dis- 
tricts. 

S.  B.  11S1.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5 
of  an  Act  approved  April  21,  1909,  to  provide  for  the  improve- 
ment of  public  streets,  lanes,  alleys,  courts  and  places  in 
municipalities,  in  cases  where  any  damage  to  private  property 
would  result  from  such  improvement,  and  for  the  assessment 
of  the  costs,  damages  and  expenses  thereof  upon  the  property 
benefited  thereby.      (Introduced  by  title  only.) 

S.  B.  603.  Carr.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act,  approved 
March  20,  1909;  amended  March  23,  1911,  to  allow  unincor- 
porated towns  and  villages  to  establish,  equip  and  maintain 
systems  of  street  lights  on  public  highways;  to  provide,  for 
the  formation,  government  and  operation  of  highway  lighting 
districts;  the  calling  and  holding  of  elections  in  such  districts; 
the  assessment,  collection,  custody  and  disbursement  of  taxes 
therein;    and   creation   of   ex-officio    boards   of   supervisors. 

A.  B.  456.  Manning  (by  request).  Amending  Sections.  3,  5, 
6,  7,   9,   11,   12,   18,   21,  23,   25,   27.,   43,   59,   61,   62,   63  and  65   of  an 


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Act  approved  April  7,  1911,  to  provide  for  work  in  and  upon 
streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks, 
within  municipalities,  and  upon  property  and  rights  of  way 
owned  by  municipalities,  and  for  establishing  and  changing  the 
grades  of  any  such  streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts, 
places  and  s?dewalks,  and  providing  for  the  issuance  and  pay- 
ment of  street  improvement  bonds  to  represent  certain  assess- 
ments for  the  cost  thereof  and  providing  a  method  for  the  pay- 
ment of  such  bonds,  and  repealing  Sections  84,  85,  86,  87,  88 
and    89    thereof,    relating   to   work    in    unincorporated    territory. 

S.    B.   608.     Carr.     Identical  with  A.   B.   456.     Manning. 

S.  B.  1164.  Benedict.  Amending  Section  6  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved April  7,  1911,  to  provide  for  work  in  and  upon  streets, 
avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks  within 
municipalities,  and  upon  property  and  rights  of  way  owned  by 
municipalities,  and  for  establishing  and  changing  the  grades 
of  any  such  streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and 
sidewalks,  and  providing  for  the  issuance  and  payment  of 
street  improvement  bonds  to  represent  certain  assessments 
for  the  cost  thereof  and  providing  a  method  for  the  payment 
of  such  bonds,   relating  to  protests. 

S.  B.  111.  Luce.  Amending  Section  9  of  an  Act  approved 
April  7,  1911,  to  provide  for  work  in  and  upon  streets,  ave* 
nues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks  within  munic- 
ipalities and  upon  property  and  rights  of  way  owned  by 
municipalities,  and  for  establishing  and  changing  grades  of 
any  such  streets,  avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and 
sidewalks,  and  providing  for  the  issuance  and  payment  of 
street  improvement  bonds  to  represent  certain  assessments 
for  the  cost  thereof,  and  providing  a  method  for  the  payment 
of  such  bonds,   relative  to  notices  of  intention,   etc. 

A.  B.  1126.  Gebhart.  Repealing  Section  36  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved April  7,  1911,  to  provide  for  work  in  and  upon  streets, 
avenues,  lanes,  alleys,  courts,  places  and  sidewalks  within 
municipalities,   etc?. 

S.  B.  701.  Breed.  Amending  Sections  60  and  63  of  the 
"Improvement  Act  of  1911",  approved  April  7,  1911,  relating 
to  bonds. 

S.  B.  1187.  Benedict.  Amending  Sections  3,  4,  8,  24  and  25 
of  an  Act  approved  June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  establish- 
ment and  change  of  grade  of  public  streets,  lands,  alleys, 
courts,  places  and  rights  of  ways  in  municipalities,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  improvement  thereof,  in  cases  where  any  dam- 
age to  private  property  would  result  from  such  improvement, 
and  for  the  assessment  of  the  costs,  damages  and  expenses 
thereof  upon  the  property  benefited  thereby,  and  to  provide 
a  system  of  local  improvement  bonds  to  represent  the  assess- 


,^10  PENDING  _.  I^EQISI^TLON,.  1915. 

m.ent  for  the.  costs,  damages  and  expenses  of  such,  improve- 
ment, and  for  the  payment  and  effect  of  such  bonds. 

A.  B.  1484.  McKnight.  Amending  Section  8  of  an  Act  ap- 
proved June  16,  1913,  to  provide  for  the  establishment  and 
change  of  grade  of  public  streets,  lands,  alleys,  courts,  places 
and  rights  of  ways  in  municipalities,  and  providing  for  the  im- 
provement thereof,  in  cases  where  any  damage  to  private  prop- 
erty would  result  from  such  improvement,  and  for  the  assess- 
ment of  the  costs,  damages  and  expenses  thereof  upon  the 
property  benefited  thereby,  and  to  provide  a  system  of  local 
improvements  bonds  to  represent  the  assessments  for  the  costs, 
damages  and  expenses  of  such  improvement,  and  for  the  pay- 
ment and  effect  of  such  bonds,  relating  to  hearings  of  petitions 
for  damages. 

SUITS    AGAINST     STATE. 

S.  B.  106.  Scott.  Authorizing  suits  against  the  State  to 
quiet  title  against  it  to  real  property  purchased  under  the 
.provisions  of  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  survey  and  .dispose 
of  certain  marsh  and  tidelands  belonging  to  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia," approved .  March  30,  1868,  or  any  or  the  :  Acts  supple- 
mentary thereto  and  amendatory  thereof,,  and  regulating  the 
procedure   therein.  - 

.Providing  that  where  full  payment  has  been  made  and  no 
deed  or  patent-  has  been  issued  by  the  State,  or  the.  deed  or 
patent  has  been  lost  or  destroyed  and  never  -recorded, . the 
person  or  persons  claiming  or  deraigning  title  from  -the  State 
are  authorized  to  bring  suit  against  the  State  to  quiet  ...title 
within  one  year  after  this  Act  takes  effect;  all  provisions  and 
rules  of  law  relating  to  suits  to  quiet  title  and  appeals  shall 
apply  to  such  suits  as  may  be  brought  under  this  Act;  if 
judgment  be  given  against  the  State  no  costs  shall  be  allowed; 
summons  shall  be  served  on  the  Surveyor  General  and  the 
Attorney   General. 

A.   B.   76.      Scott,   F.   C.     Identical  with   S.  B.   106.     Scott. 

A.  B.  733.  Quihn.  Granting  the  Humboldt  and,  Trinity  Toll 
Road  Company  the  right  to  bring  suit  against  the  State  of 
California  for  compensation -'for -the  use  and  destruction  of 
portions  of  road  bed  belonging  to  the  said  Humboldt  and 
Trinity  Road   Company  and   used  and   destroyed   by  the- State 

•  of  California  in  the  construction  and  completion  of  the  State 
highway  connecting  the  counties^  of  v  Trinity,  Tehama  and 
Shasta  with  the  road  system  of  Humboldt  County. 

-     S.   B.   918,'  -Cam.pt>ell.     Authorizing   certain  suits   against  the 
State,  and  regulating  the  procedure  therein. 
'  A.  "B.  1479.    -GebhaTt  :  Authorizing  any  owner  of  swamp  and 
overflow:  land  fn- this   State   to  bring:  action -against  the  State 
of :  California  to  "correct   any   errors:  in   description   that •;  .may 

•  i exist  in  the- patent:  to  s^d- lands..  ;:    :;:;;.  ;.:'  :.    -  ■_;-. 


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SUPERIOR     COURTS. 

S.  B.  16.  Luce.  Increasing  the  number  of  judges  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  the  County  of  San  Diego,  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, from  four  to  five,  and  for  the  appointment  of  such 
additional  judge. 

A.  B.  9.  Gelder.  Increasing  the  number  of  judges  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  the  County  of  Alameda,  State  of  California, 
from  five  to  seven,  and  for  the  appointment  of  such  additional 
judges. 

S.   B.   782.     Tyrrell.     Identical  with  A.   B.   9.     Gelder. 

A.  B.  363.  McCray.  Diminishing  the  number  of  judges  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  the  County  of  Shasta,  State  of  California, 
from  two  to  one. 

A.  B.  398.  Pettis  (by  request).  To  increase  the  number  of 
judges  in  the  Superior  Court  Of  the  State  of  California,  in  and 
for  the  County  of  Mendocino,  to  provide  for  the  appointment 
of  an  additional  judge  and  for  his  compensation. 

S.   B.    456.     Purkitt.     Identical  with  A.   B.   398.     Pettis. 

A.  B.  708.  Wills.  To  increase  the  number  of  judges  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  the  County  of  Imperial  and  to  provide  for 
the   appointment   of  an  additional  judge. 

TAXATION. 

(See    also    Assessments;    Constitutional    Amendments;    Political 
Code.) 

S.  B.  962.  Thompson.  Authorizing  and  providing  for  an 
investigation  and  report  upon  the  matter  of  revenue  and  taxa- 
tion, and  appropriating  $75,000  therefor. 

Authorizes  the  Governor  to  direct  any  State  officer  or  ap- 
point any  expert  or  other  assistants  as  may  be  necessary  to 
investigate  the  systems  of  revenue  and  taxation  in  force  in 
this  and  other  states  and  to  present  recommendations  for  nec- 
essary changes  in  the  taxation  system  of  this  State  to  the 
Legislature  in  January,  1917. 

S.  B.  493.  Birdsall.  Providing  for  the  reimbursement  of 
counties  sustaining  net  loss  of  revenue  on  account  of  with- 
drawal from  county  taxation  of  property  hereafter  becom- 
ing operative  property  under  the  provisions  of  Section  14  of 
Article  XIII  of  the   Constitution. 

Defines  "operative  property"  as  operative  property  of  a  cor- 
poration subject  to  franchise  tax;  provides  that  the  amount  of 
county  taxes  assessed  against  each  piece  of  such  property 
during  the  last  year  it  was  subject  to  county  taxation  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  the  annual  net  loss  of  revenue  sustained 
by  the  county  on  account  of  the  withdrawal  of  such  property 
from  county  taxation;  that  reimbursement  shall  be  made  each 
year    that     such    property     remains     operative     property,     and 


312  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

withdrawn  from  county  taxation;  and  creates  a  "county  re- 
imbursement fund"  from  which  the  State  Treasurer  shall  in 
October  and  March  of  each  year  settle  with  the  treasurer  of 
each    county    for    moneys    due    from    the    State. 

S.  B.  539.  Cogswell.  To  limit  the  times  when  district  lines 
in  districts,  where  tax  rates  for  same  are  to  be  fixed  by  the 
board  of  supervisors  of  any  county,  may  be  changed  or  new 
district   formed.  » 

Such  changes  are  prohibited  between  the  first  Monday  in 
August  and   the   third   Monday   in   October   of   each   year. 

S.  B.  805.  Thompson.  Authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Equal- 
ization to  destroy  by  fire  certain  reports  and  other  documents. 

A.   B.   901.     Meek.     Identical  with  S.   B.   805.     Thompson. 

S.  B.  1005.  Jones.  To  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
Section  la  of  Article  XIII  of  trie  Constitution  of  California, 
exempting  property  from  taxation  in  certain  instances;  de- 
fining certain  terms;  providing  certain  regulations  with  refer- 
ence to  said  exemption,  and  to  that  end  adding  a  new  section 
to  the  Political  Code  of  the  State  of  California  to  be  numbered 
3613. 

A.  B.  1183.  Johnson  and  Phelps.  Providing  for  the  reim- 
bursement of  counties  in  this  State  which  sustained  a  net 
loss  of  revenues  during  the  years  1911,  1912,  1913  and  1914,  by 
the  withdrawal  of  railroad  property  from  county  taxation,  etc. 

S.  B.  1092.  King.  Identical  with  A.  B.  1183.  Johnson  and 
Phelps. 

A.  B.  1452.  Quinn.  To  provide  for  the  levy  and  collection 
of  taxes  for  the  support  of  the  State  Government  for  the  sixty- 
seventh  and  sixty-eighth  fiscal  years. 

A.  B.  1459.  Ashley.  To  provide  for  the  making  and  publi- 
cation by  boards  of  supervisors  of  annual  estimates  of  the 
amount  of  money  proposed  to  be  raised  by  taxation  for  the 
ensuing  year  in  counties,  and  cities  and  counties,  of  the  State 
of  California. 

S.  B.  581.  Kehoe.  Amending  Section  14  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved April  1,  1911,  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
Section  14  of  Article  13  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of 
California  as  said  Constitution  was  amended  November  8, 
1910,  providing  for  the  separation  of  State  from  local  taxation, 
and  providing  for  the  taxation  of  public  service  and  other 
corporations,  banks  and  insurance  companies  for  the  benefit 
of  the  State,  all  relating  to  revenue  and  taxation,  and  every 
Act  amendatory  of  said  Section  14,  by  providing  the  procedure 
for  asscertaining  and  determining  the  actual  cash  value  of 
every  franchise  subject  to  taxation,  other  than  the  actual 
exercise  of  the  right  to  be  a  corporation  and  to  do  business 
as  a  corporation  under  the  laws  of  this  State,  and  providing 
a  procedure  for  ascertaining  and  determining  the  actual  cash 
value  of  the  actual  exercise  of  the  right  to  be  a  corporation 


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and  to  do  business  as  a  corporation  under  the  laws  of  this 
State. 

S.  B.  3_2.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  21  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved April  1,  1911  (statute  1911,  page  530),  as  amended  June 
12,  1913  (statutes  1913,  page  615),  to  carry  into  effect  the 
provisions  of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution 
of  the  State  of  California  as  said  Constitution  was  amended 
November  8,  1910,  providing  for  the  separation  of  state  from 
local  taxation,  and  providing  for  the  taxation  of  public  service 
and  other  corporations,  banks  and  insurance  companies  for 
the  benefit   of  the   State,   all  relating   to  revenue   and  "taxation. 

A.  B.  1182.  Johnson  and  Phelps.  Amending  Section  30  of 
an  Act  approved  April  1,  1911,  to  carry  into  effect  the  provi- 
sions of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
State  of  California,   etc. 

S.  B.  1091.  King.  Identical  with  A.  B.  1182.  Johnson  and 
Phelps. 

S.  B.  24.  Thompson.  Amending  Sections  1,  2,  3,  4  and  6  of 
an  act  approved  February  3,  1913,  to  amend  an  act  entitled 
'An  Act  to  amend  an  Act  entitled  An  Act  to  carry  into  effect 
the  provisions  of  Section  14  of  Article  XIII  of  the  Constitution 
of  the  State  of  California  as  said  Constitution  was  amended 
November  3,  1910,  providing  for  the  separation  of  State  from 
local  taxation,  and  providing  for  the  taxation  of  public  service 
and  other  corporations,  banks  and  insurance  companies  for 
the  benefit  of  the  State,  all  relating  to  revenue  and  taxation,* 
approved  April  1,  1911,  by  amending  Sections  2,  3,  4,  5,  24 
and    35,"    approved   February   3,    1913. 

A.  B.  1441.  Encell.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  approved 
June  10,  1913,  to  repeal  an  Act  approved  March  20,  1905,  relat- 
ing to  revenue  and  taxation,  providing  for  a  license  tax  upon 
corporations  and  making  an  appropriation  for  the  purpose  of 
carrying  out  the  object  of  this  Act,  and  all  Acts  amendatory 
thereof  or  supplemental  thereto,  and  to  provide  upon  what  con- 
ditions any  corporation  which  has  failed  to  pay  any  license 
tax  imposed  by  the  provisions  of  any  of  the  Acts  hereby  re- 
pealed may  pay  the  same  and  be  restored  to  its  former  cor- 
porate status  and  rights,  and  also  to  provide  for  settling  the 
affairs  of  any  corporation  which  by  reason  of  failure  to  pay 
any  tax  imposed  by  any  of  said  Acts,  has  forfeited  either  its 
charter  or  right  to  do  business!  in  this  State. 

TEACHERS. 

(See   Pensions.) 
S.   B.   886.     Breed.     Relating   to   the   employment   of   teachers 
who   have   no  legal   certificate. 


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TENEMENT     HOUSES. 

S.  B.  76.  Flaherty.  Amending-  an  Act  approved  April  10, 
1911,  Stats.  1911,  p.  860,  to  regulate  the  building  and  occu- 
pancy of  tenement  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incor- 
porated cities,  and  cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide 
penalties  for  the  violation  thereof  and  repealing  an  Act 
entitled  "An  Act  to  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy  of 
tenement  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated  cities, 
and  cities  and  counties,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  the 
violation  thereof,"  approved  April  16,  1909,  Stats.  1909, 
p.    948. 

A.   B.   453.     Kennedy.     Identical  with   S.   B.     76.     Flaherty. 

S.  B.  9SS.  Butler.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  April  16,  1909, 
amended  April  10,  1911,  amended  June  13,  1913,  to  regulate 
the  building  and  occupancy  of  tenement  houses  in  incorporated 
towns,  incorporated  cities,  and  cities  and  counties,  and  to 
provide  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof  and  repealing  an 
Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  regulate  the  building  and  occupancy 
of  tenement  houses  in  incorporated  towns,  incorporated  cities, 
and  cities  and  counties,  and  to  provied  penalties  for  the  viola- 
tion thereof". 

A.  B.   1299.     Godsil.     Identical  with   S.   B.   988.     Butler. 

THEATER    TICKETS,    TO    PREVENT    FRAUD    IN    SALE    OF. 

A.  B.  360.  Rodgers.  Prohibiting  the  sale  or  purchase  of 
theater  or  vaudeville  tickets,  other  than  exhibitions  for  charity, 
on  the  streets,  in  saloons,  cigar  stands,  hotels  or  other  stores, 
and  declaring  violation  a   misdemeanor. 

TRADE     MARKS. 

A.  B.  1199.  Scott,  F.  C.  To  perpetuate  marks,  brands  and 
counterbrands  established  in  the  several  counties  of  the  State 
under  Sections  3168  and  3169  of  the  Political  Code,  to  provide 
methods  of  perpetuation  and  declaring  all  marks,  brands  and 
counterbrands   not   so   perpetuated   to   be   inoperative   and  void. 

Requires  each  County  Recorder  in  whose  office  more  than 
100  marks,  brands  and  counterbrands  are  recorded  under 
Section  3168,  Political  Code,  to,  within  30  days  after  this  law 
goes  into  effect,  publish  a  notice  in  a  newspaper  in  the  county, 
notifying  all  persons  owning  a  mark,  brand  or  counterbrand 
so  recorded,  to,  within  three  months  after  final  publication  of 
notice,  to  notify  county  recorder  in  Writing  of  his  desire  to 
continue  and  perpetuate  same;  and  all  marks,  brands  and 
counterbrands  not  so  perpetuated  shall  be  destroyed  and  ex- 
punged from  records,  and  deemed  to  have  been  abandoned. 
County  recorders  shall  send  a  list  of  such  marks,  etc.,  to 
county    recorders    of    adjoining    counties,    who    shall    likewise 


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destroy  all  evidence  in  relation  thereto.     This  procedure   shall 
be   followed  at  intervals   of  five  years. 

TUBERCULOSIS. 

S.  B.  34.  Crowley.  To  provide  for  the  establishment, 
maintenance  and  control  of  sanatoria,  farm  colonies  and  other  - 
institutions  for  the  treatment  of  tuberculosis  and  appropriat- 
ing $150,000  therefor,  and  authorizing  counties  and  cities  and 
counties  within  the  State  to  send  patients  to  said  institutions 
and  to  pay  the  running  expenses  and  maintenance  of  the 
same  and  of  patients  therein,  and  to  levy  taxes  therefor,  and 
providing  for  other   sources   of  revenue. 

A.    B.    10.     Godsil.     Identical  with   S.    B.    34.      Crowley. 

A.  B.  33.  Kennedy.  Providing  for  the  establishment,  main- 
tenance and  control  of  a  sanatorium  for  the  treatment  of 
tuberculosis    and"  appropriating    $150,000    therefor. 

S.  B..  148.  Jones.  Providing  for  the  establishment  and  main- 
tenance of  a  bureau  of  tuberculosis  under  the  direction  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health;  defining  its  powers  and  duties;  pro- 
viding for  the  granting  of  State  aid  to  cities,  counties,  cities 
and  counties  and  groups  of  counties  for  the  support  and  care 
of  persons -afflicted  with  tuberculosis;  making  an  appropria- 
tion therefor,  and  repealing  certain  Acts  of  the  Legislature 
of  the  State  of  California. 
^A.   B.   446.     Fish.     Identical  with   S.   B.    148.     Jones. 

USURY. 

(See   Interest   Rate.) 

S.  B.  189.  Brown.  Establishing  a  "usury  law",  relating 
to  the  rate  of  interest  which  may  be  charged  for  the  loan  or 
forebearance  of  money,  goods  or  things  in  action,  or  on  ac- 
counts after  demand,  or  on  judgments,  providing  penalties  for 
the  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof,  and  repealing  Sections 
1917,  1918,  1919,  and  1920,  Civil  Code,  and  all  Acts  or  parts 
of   Acts   in   conflict  with  this   Act. 

Fixes  the  legal  rate  of  interest  at  6  per  cent,  but  providing 
that  by  contract  in  writing  parties  may  provide  for  a  rate 
of  interest  not  exceeding  10  per  cent;  forbids  the  taking 
directly  or  indirectly  of  a  greater  interest  rate  than  10  per 
cent;  declares  all  contracts  in  violation  of  statute  void,  and 
"no  action  at  law  to  recover  either  principal  or  interest  shall 
be  maintained".  Any  person  who  shall  have  paid  more  than 
10  per  cent  interest  may  recover  treble  the  amount  so  paid 
if  action  commenced  within  one  year  after  payment;  any  per- 
son, etc.,  who  demands  or  receives  for  any  loan  of  money 
secured,  by  mortgage,  deed  of  trust,  bill  of  sale,  assignment, 
pledge,    receipt,    or    other    evidence    of   debt,    real    or    personal, 


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for  examinations,  views,  fees,  appraisals,  commissions,  re- 
newals and  charges  of  any  kind,  more  than  one-twentieth  of 
the  amount  loaned,  if  less  than  $1000,  or  more  than  one- 
thirtieth  if  in  excess  of  $1000,  shall  be  guilty  of  misdemeanor, 
punishable  for  first  offense  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor 
more  than  $300,  or  by  imprisonment  not  more  than  six  months, 
or  both,  and  for  each  subsequent  offense  by  fine  of  not  less 
than  $100  nor  more  than  $500,  and  imprisonment  not  less  than 
six  months  nor  more  than   one  year. 

UNEMPLOYMENT. 

A.  B.  501.  Downing.  For  the  relief  of  unemployed  citizens 
of  this  State,  and  appropriating  $1,000,000,  to  be  disbursed 
by  the  Board  of  Control  in  such  sums  and  at  such  time  as  it 
may  deem  expedient  by  giving  employment  to  unemployed 
citizens  on  such  work  as  building  and  improving  roads,  public 
buildings,  etc.;  no  person  shall  be  employed  under  provisions 
of  act  who  shall  not  have  been  a  resident  of  this  State  for  at 
least   one   year   next   before   such   employment. 

A.  B.  502.  Spengler.  To  ameliorate  unemployment  by  au- 
thorizing boards  and  officials  of  State  or  political  subdivisions, 
having  charge  of  employing  labor  or  help,  to  so  arrange  work 
to  be  done  as  to  employ  the  maximum  number  of  persons 
during  seasons  of  greatest  unemployment. 

A.  B.  670.  Kramer  (by  request).  To  establish  the  Cali- 
fornia State  Farm  for  the  unemployed;  to  provide  for  the 
purchase  of  land  therefor;  to  provide  buildings  and  other  im- 
provements in  connection  therewith;  to  provide  for  the  em- 
ployment of  labor  thereon;  to  provide  for  the  equipment,  man- 
agement and  conduct  thereof;  and  appropriating  $500,000 
therefor. 

S.  B.  87  4.  Scott.  To  set  aside  certain  lands  now  owned  by 
the  State  of  California  for  the  purpose  of  establishing,  main- 
taining and  conducting  a  State  farm,  and  appropriating  $50,000 
therefor. 

VACCINATION 

A.  B.  67.  Gelder.  To  protect  any  child  or  person  enrolled  or 
in  attendance  upon  any  public  or  private  school,  or  other 
educational  institution,  within  the  State  of  California,  from 
compulsory  vaccination;  and  to  prevent  vaccination  being 
made  a  condition  precedent  or  a  prerequisite  to  admission  to 
or  attendance  upon  any  of  the  public  or  private  schools  or 
other  educational  institutions  within  the  State  of  California; 
making  violations  thereof  a  misdemeanor;  providing  penalties; 
making  exceptions  as  to  private  educational  institutions;  and 
repealing  an  Act  approved  March  7,  1911,  to  encourage  and 
provide    for   a    general   vaccination   for   all   public    and    private 


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schools  of  California,  specifying  the  duties  of  certain  officers 
and  persons  with  relation  thereto,  making  violations  of  its 
provisions  a  misdemeanor,  providing  penalties,  and  repealing 
an  Act  approved  February  20,  1889,  entitled  "An  Act  to  en- 
courage and  provide  for  a  general  vaccination  in  the  State  of 
California.'' 

VETERANS,    WAR. 

S.  B.  266.  Scott.  Providing  for  memorial  halls  and  meeting 
places  for  army  and  navy  veterans  of  the  Civil  War,  the  Span- 
ish-American War,  and  the  Philippine  Insurrection,  to  be 
furnished  by  the  board  of  supervisors  or  city  council  in  some 
public  building,  upon  request;  if  there  is  no  space  available 
in  any  public  building  then  to  provide  quarters  elsewhere  at 
a  rental  not  to  exceed  $25  per  month. 

VITAL     STATISTICS. 

(See  Marriage  and  Divorce.) 
S.  B.  511.  Strobridge.  To  provide  for  the  registration  of  all 
births  and  deaths,  the  establishment  of  registration  districts  in 
cities,  incorporated  towns  and  townships,  under  the  superin- 
tendence of  the  State  Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics;  the  issuance 
and  registration  of  burial  and  disinterment  permits  and  cer- 
tificates of  births  and  deaths;  the  appointment  of  a  State  and 
a  local  registrar  of  vital  statistics;  and  prescribing  the  powers 
and  duties  of  registrars,  coroners,  physicians,  undertakers, 
sextons  and  other  persons  in  relation  to  such  registration  and 
fixing  penalties  for  violation  of  this  Act;  creating  the  office  of 
State  and  local  registrars  of  vital  statistics  and  providing  for 
the  salary  and  fees  of  same. 

VOTERS    AND    VOTING. 

(See  Elections;  Political  Code.) 
A  B.  631.  Chamberlin.  Requring  all  qualified  electors  in 
the  State  of  California  to  register  and  to  vote  at  general 
elections  and  prescribing  a  poll  tax  upon  all  electors  who  fail 
or  neglect  so  to  register  or  to  vote,  and  prescribing  punish- 
ment for  those  persons  who  swear  falsely  in  such  matters  and 
prescribing  certain  duties  for  county  clerks,  tax  collectors  and 
boards   of   elections. 

Every  qualified  elector  failing  or  neglecting  to  register  and 
vote  at  any  general  election  shall  be  subject  to  a  tax  of  $2.00; 
persons  unavoidably  prevented  from  registering  or  voting  by 
reason  of  accident,  violence,  sickness,  absence  from  precinct 
on  public  business  or  from  county  on  private  business  at  least 
one  day  previous  and  including  election  day  filing  a  written 
sworn   statement  with    County   Clerk   verified   by  at   least   two 


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reputable  witnesses,   giving   full   details,  and   reasons   for  sUGh  • 
failure  or  neglect,   shall  be  exempt  from  such  poll  tax.-        -      - 

Electors  failing  to  vote  and  to.  file  statement  of  reasons  . 
shall  have  names  stricken  from  register  and  shall  not  again 
be  allowed  to  register  or  vote  until  poll  tax  is  paid.  County 
Clerk  shall  transmit  to  Tax  Collector  before  3d  day  of  March 
following  general  election  certified  copy  of  poll  lists.  Boards 
of  election  shall  post  copy  of  names  of  all  persons  voting  as 
soon  as  polls  are  closed,  signed  by  all  members  of  board. 

Every  person  who  swears  falsely  to  a  state'ment  of  reasons 
for  not  voting  or  who  swears  falsely  to  statements  contained 
in  affidavit  of  any  other  person,  shall  be  guilty  of  misde- 
meanor, punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $10  or  more  than 
$500  and  imprisonment  not  less  than  10  days  nor  more  than 
6  months.  All  money  collected  under  this  Act  to  be  paid  to 
school   fund. 

A.  B.  1457.  Young.  -To  provide  for  the  indication  by  the 
registered  qualified  electors  of  the  several  political  parties  of 
their  choice  for  nomination  by  their  party  for  President  of 
the  United  States  through  the  election  of  the  delegates  of 
said  political  parties  to  their  respective  national  conventions, 
and  to  repeal  an  Act  approved  December  24,  1911,  known  as 
the  Presidential  Primary  Act,  and  also  to  repeal  all  other  Acts 
or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  or  in  conflict  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act. 

WAGES    AND     HOURS. 

A.  B.  6.  Collins.  Providing  for  weekly  payment  of  wages 
by  employers  of  labor. 

Provides  that  all  employers  of  labor  (except  agricultural 
labor)  shall  pay  each  employee  weekly,  payment  to  include 
all  wages  earned  and  unpaid  up  to  6th  day  preceding  payment, 
and  no  deduction  shall  be  made- therefor.  Act  noes  not  apply 
to  employee  of  co-operative  corporation  or  association  who  is 
stockholder,  unless  he  requests  weekly  payment;  violation  sub- 
ject to  fine  of  not  less  than  $10  nor  more  than  $50. 

A.  B.  15.  Mouser.  Providing  for  semi-monthly  paydays  in 
certain  public  and  private  employments;  to  regulate  the  man- 
ner of  payment  of  wages  or  compensaton  of  employees  in  such 
employments;  and  providing  penalties  for  the  violation  of 
this  Act. 

Provides  for  semi-monthly  paydays  in  all  departments  and 
institutions  of  the  public  service,  state,  county  and  municipal, 
and  in  all  private  employments  where  ten  or  more  persons  are 
employed;  requires  notices  of  the  regular  paydays  to  be  con- 
spicuously posted;  violation  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than 
$25  nor  more  than  $500,  except  that  in  case  of  state,  cOunty 
or  municipality,   the  fine   shall  be   assessed   against   the  officer 


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whose  refusal,  failure  or  neglect  causes  violation;  Act  not 
applicable  to  temporary  employees  or  teachers  in  public 
schools,  and  not  to  be  construed  as  prohibiting  more  frequent 
paydays. 

A.  B.  980.  Marron.  To  provide  semi-monthly  pay  days  for 
State  employes. 

S.  B.  433.  Flaherty.  To  provide  for  semi-monthly  pay  days 
in  certain  public  employments;  and  to  regulate  the  manner  of 
payment  of  wages  or  compensation  of  employees  in  such  em- 
ployments. 

A.    B.    488.      Mouser.      Identical   with   S.    B.    433.      Flaherty. 

S.  B.  405.  Scott.  To  regulate  the  payment  of  wages  or  com- 
pensation of  employees  in  private  employments;  to  provide  for 
regular  pay  days  in  such  employment;  creating  a  liability  on 
the  part  of  the  employers  to  pay  damages  in  certain  cases; 
and  authorizing  the  Commissioner  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor 
Statistics  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Provides  that  where  10  or  more  persons  are  employed  by  the 
same  employer  their  wages  shall  be  due  and  payable  semi- 
monthly; where  less  than  10  are  so  employed,  wages  shall  be 
due  and  payable  weekly;  regular  pay  days  shall  be  maintained, 
and  a  notice  stating  such  pay  days  shall  be  posted  conspicu- 
ously; wages  shall  be  paid  in  lawful  money  of  the  United 
States  or  by  good  and  valid  negotiable  check  or  draft,  payable 
on  presentation  at  some  bank,  without  discount;  if  an  employee 
shall  be  absent  on  pay  day  he  shall  be  paid  within  three  days 
after  making  demand  therefor;  for  violation  employer  shall  be 
subject  to  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor  more  than  $500  for  each 
offense. 

If  an  employee  shall  be  discharged  or  quit  wages  earned 
and  unpaid  at  time  of  leaving  shall  be  due  and  payable  within 
five  days  thereafter,  and  if  not  so  paid  employer  shall  be 
liable  to  such  employee  as  damages  in  addition  to  wages  owing 
a  sum  equivalent  to  wages  that  would  have  been  earned  if  he 
had  continued  to  work  until  paid  in  full,  but  not  to  exceed 
three  times  the  wages  actually  due. 

Act  does  not  apply  to  seasonal  employments  in  which  wages 
are  otherwise  regulated  by  law.  Commissioner  of  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics  shall  enforce  provisions  of  Act. 

A.   B.   487.     Mouser.     Identical  with   S.   B.   405.     Scott. 

S.  B.  987.  Lyon.  Amending  an  Act,  approved  March  1,  1911, 
prohibiting  the  issuance  as  payment  for  wages  of  any  evidence 
of  indebtedness  unless  the  same  is  negotiable  and  payable  with- 
out discount,  and  providing  that  the  same  must  be  payable 
upon  demand,  by  prohibiting  the  issuance  of  any  scrip,  coupons, 
cards,  or  other  thing  redeemable  in  merchandise  or  purporting 
to  be  payable  or  redeemable  otherwise  than   in  money. 

A.   B.   1190.     Johnson.     Amending  Sections   2,   3   and   4  of  an 


320  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

Act  approved  May  1,  1911,  providing  for  the  time  of  payment 
of  wages,   and   adding  Sections  5  and   6  thereto. 

S.  B.  982.  Lyon.  Amending  Section  3  of  an  Act,  approved 
May  1,  1911,  providing  for  the  time  of  payment  of  wages, 
providing  penalties   for  the  violation   of   said   Act. 

A.   B.    1392.     Ream.      Relating   to   the   payment   of  wages. 

Provides  that  all  wages  earned  shall  be  paid  in  cash;  failure 
to  do  so  is  made  a  misdemeanor. 

A.  B.  148.  Rodgers.  Providing  compensation  for  State 
employees   on   certain   legal   holidays. 

Provides  that  all  State  employees  on  per  diem  basis  shall 
be  paid  for  legal  holidays,  except  Sundays,  as  on  other  days, 
but  shall  not  be  required  to  labor  thereon  except  in  cases  of 
extreme   emergency. 

S.   B.   515.     S'eott.     Identical  wtth  A.   B.   148.     Rodgers. 

A.  B.  108.  Rodgers.  Prescribing  the  minimum  wage  to  be 
paid  for  labor  upon  all  work  performed  for  and  in  the  interest 
of  the  State  of  California  by  contract,  at  $3.00  per  day,  and 
requiring  a  stipulation  to  that  effect  in  all  contracts;  penalty, 
misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  not  to  exceed  $500  or  im- 
prisonment   not   to   exceed   seven   months. 

A.  B.  98.  Spengler.  Regulating  the  hours  of  persons  em- 
ployed in  any  manufacturing,  mechanical  or  mercantile  estab- 
lishment, laundry,  hotel,  public  lodging  house,  apartment 
house,  hospital,  place  of  amusement  or  restaurant,  or  telegraph 
or  telephone  establishment  or  office;  also  providing  a  penalty 
for   the  violation   of   this  Act. 

Limits  hours  to  eight  per  day  and  48  per  week;  not  to  apply 
to  or  affect  harvesting,  curing,  canning  or  drying  of  any  variety 
of  perishable  fruit  or  vegetables  or  to  graduate  nurses  in  hos- 
pitals. Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  charged  with  enforcement; 
violation  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor  more  than 
$50  for  first  offense;  and  for  second  offense  by  fine  of  not  less 
than  $100  nor  more  than  $250,  or  imprisonment  not  more  than 
60  days,  or  both. 

A.  B.  750.  Browne.  Regulating  the  hours  of  employment  in 
the  manufacture  of  lumber. 

Limits  hours  to  ten  in  each  twenty-four;  except  in  case 
of  emergency;  violation  declared  a  misdemeanor,  punishable 
by  fine  of  not  less  than  $50  nor  more  than  $300,  or  by  imprison- 
ment not  more  than  three  months,  or  both. 

WATER    DISTRICTS. 

S.  B.  105.  Strobridge.  Amending  Sections  S,  19,  21  and  26 
of  an  Act  to  amend  an  Act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation 
and  organization  and  management  of  county  water  districts, 
and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  of  water  rights  or  construc- 
tion   thereby    of    waterworks    and    for    the    acquisition    of    all 


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property  necessary  therefor,  and  also  to  provide  for  the  dis- 
tribution and  sale  of  water  by  said  districts. 

A.  B.  310.  Beck.  Amneding  Sections  3,  19,  21  and  26  of 
an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  and 
organization  and  management  of  county  water  districts  and 
to  provide  for  the  acquisition  of  water  rights  or  construction 
thereby  of  water  works  and  for  the  acquisition  of  all  property 
necessary  therefor,  and  also  to  provide  for  the  distribution 
and   sale   of   water   by   said   districts". 

A.  B.  339.  Gelder.  Amending  Sections  4,  5,  7,  9,  10,  13,  14 
and  25  of  an  Act  approved  December  24,  1911,  to  provide  for 
the  incorporation  and  organization  and  management  of  munic- 
ipal water  districts,  and  to  provide  for  the  acquisition  or  con- 
struction by  said  districts  of  waterworks,  and  for  the  acquisi- 
tion of  all  property  necessary  therefor,  and  also  to  provide  tot 
the  distribution  and  sale  of  water  by  said  districts,  and  add' 
ing  a  new  section  to  be  designated  Section  14*£  thereto,  relat- 
ing to  the  Auditor. 

S.  B.  350.  Luce.  Adding  Section  27a  (new)  to  an  Act  to 
provide  for  the  incorporation  and  organization  and  manage- 
ment of  municipal  water  districts;  providing  for  the  disincor- 
poration  of  said  districts. 

S.  B.  567.  Benedict.  Relating  to  bonds  of  county  water 
works  districts,  providing  under  what  circumstances  such 
bonds  shall  be  legal  investments  for  funds  of  banks,  insur- 
ance companies  and  trust  companies,  trust  funds,  State  school 
funds  and  any  money  or  funds  which  may  now  or  hereafter 
be  invested  in  bonds  of  cities,  cities  and  counties,  counties, 
school  districts  or  municipalities,  and  providing  under  what 
circumstances  the  use  of  bonds  of  county  water  works  dis- 
tricts as  security  for  the  performance  of  any  act  may  be 
authorized. 

S.  B.  319.  Strobridge.  Validating  the  formation  and  organi- 
zation, and  determining  the  boundaries  of  Alameda  County 
Water  District  in  the  county  of  Alameda,  State  of  California. 

S.  B.  534.  Strobridge.  Validating  the  formation  and  organi- 
zation, and  determining  the  boundaries  of  the  Pleasanton 
township  county  water  district  in  the  county  of  Alameda,  State 
of  California. 

A.  B.  643.  Beck.  Validating  the  formation  and  organiza- 
tion, and  determining  the  boundaries  of  the  Pleasanton  Town- 
ship County  Water  District  in  the  County  of  Alameda,  State 
of  California. 

S.  B.  790.  Owens.  Legalizing  and  validating  the  formation 
and  organization  of  Marin  municipal  water  district  in  the 
County  of  Marin,  State  of  California;  declaring  the  same 
created;  fixing,  defining  and  establishing  the  boundaries  there- 
of;  providing  for  its   management   and   control   subject  to  the 


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provisions  of  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California  relative  to 
municipal  water  districts;  and  repealing  all  acts  and  parts  of 
acts  inconsistent  therewith. 

A.   B.   854.     Manning.     Identical  with  S.  B.  790.     Owens. 

WATER    AND    WATER     RIGHTS. 

S.  B.  33.  Flaherty.  To  compel  every  person,  company, 
association  or  corporation  carrying  on  or  conducting  the  busi- 
ness of  supplying  water  in  any  city,  city  and  county,  or  town, 
to  supply  all  the  inhabitants  thereof  upon  demand.  Failure 
to  furnish  water  on  the  ground  that  the  persons  demanding 
it  must  pay  for  necessary  extensions  of  pipe,  the  city  shall 
install  the  necessary  pipe  and  charge  the  cost  to  the  person 
or  corporation  furnishing  the  water.  Failure  or  refusal  to 
furnish  water  on  demand  for  three  consecutive  times  shall 
forfeit  its  franchise  and  waterworks  to  the  city,  city  and 
county,   or  town,   where  same   is  situated,   for  the  public   use. 

A.  B.  301.  Ellis.  Requiring  a  riparian  proprietor  to  apply 
any  riparian  waters  claimed  by  him  to  a  beneficial  use,  and 
providing  for  the  abandonment  of  the   right. 

A.  B.  983.  Shartel.  To  conserve  the  water  supply  of  streams 
used  for  mining,  irrigation  or  municipal  purposes,  by  regulat- 
ing the  cutting  of  timber  on  the  watersheds  thereof;  and  pre- 
scribing penalties  for  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  1216.  Fish.  Relating  to  the  establishment  and  crea- 
tion of  commercial  waterway  districts,  and  the  construction 
and  maintenance  of  a  system  of  commercial  waterways,  in- 
cluding the  straightening,  deepening  and  widening  of  rivers, 
water  courses  and  streams  and  the  protecting  of  the  banks 
thereof,   and   to  provide  for  the   means  of  payment  thereof. 

S.  B.  1049.     Thompson.     Identical  with  A.  B.  1216.     Fish. 

S.  B.  1029.  Irwin  (by  request).  An  Act  to  prohibit  the 
contamination  of  streams,  creeks,  irrigation  ditches,  lakes  and 
other  sources  of  surface  water  supply  by  the  discharge  and 
flow  of  petroleum  or  petroleum  emulsion  resulting  from  the 
operations  of  any  person,  firm,  corporation  or  association  in 
drilling,  pumping  or  maintaining  an  oil  or  petroleum  produc- 
ing well;  providing  for  the  stoppage  of  such  discharge  or  flow 
and  providing  penalties  for  the  violating  of  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

S.  B.  1051.  Benedict.  To  provide  for  the  accomplishment  of 
the  work  in  the  confining  and  diversion  of  the  Los  Angeles, 
Rio  Honda  and  San  Gabriel  Rivers  in  the  County  of  Los  An- 
geles, providing  for  co-operation  between  the  State  and  United 
States  Government  in  such  work,  and  appropriating  $200,000 
therefor. 

S.  B.  1144.  Maddux.  Relating  to  the  use  of  the  public 
waters  of  the  State  of  California. 


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Prohibits  use  of  water  flowing  in  any  river,  stream,  canyon, 
ravine  or  other  natural  channel,  on  lands  not  riparian  thereto 
without  permission  of  State  Water  Commission;  diversion  or 
use  of  water  contrary  hereto  is  declared  a  trespass,  subject 
to  legal  action  for  its  abatement. 

A.   B.   1464.     Dennett.     Identical  with  S.   B.   1144.     Maddux. 

A.  B.  1302.  Browne  (by  request).  Amending  Sections  1 
and  2  of  an  Act  to  preserve  and  maintain  lakes,  ponds,  brooks, 
creeks,  rivers  and  streams  of  this  State,  and  to  prevent  the 
waters  thereof  from  being  carried  by  pipe,  conduits,  ditches, 
tunnels   or   canals   into  other  states,   for  use   therein. 

S.  B.  1101.  Jones.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act,  approved 
June  13,  1913,  to  prevent  the  supply  of  water  dangerous  to 
health  for  domestic  purposes,  and  to  provide  for  the  installation 
of   sanitary   water   system. 

A.  B.  1396.  Wright,  T.  M.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act, 
approved  June  13,  1913,  to  prevent  the  supply  of  water  dan- 
gerous to  health  for  domestic  purposes  and  to  provide  for  the 
installation  of  sanitary  water  systems. 

WEEDS,  NOXIOUS  PROPAGATION  OF. 
S.  B.  333.  Birdsall.  To  prevent  the  propagation,  by  the  pro- 
duction of  seed,  of  those  certain  plants  known  as  sorghum 
halepense,  cnicus  arvensis,  salsoli  kali,  onoprodon  acanthium, 
cnicus  lanceolatus  and  convolvulus  arvensis;  and  repealing 
all  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith. 

WEIGHTS    AND     MEASURES. 

A.  B.  257.  Widenmann.  Relating  to  persons  engaged  in  the 
business  of  public  weighing  for  hire  and  prescribing  for  such 
a  bond  and  fixing  the  amount  thereof;  regulating  fees  to  be 
collected  for  such  service;  a  certificate  and  the  form  thereof; 
defining  the  duties  of  public  weighmasters  and  providing  pen- 
alties for  violations  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Declares  all  persons  engaged  in  the  business  of  public  weigh- 
ing for  hire  and  issuing  weight  certificates,  public  weigh 
masters,  and  requires  them  to  file  a  bond  of  $5000  with  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Weights  and  Measures,  and  to  obtain 
from  him  a  seal  for  the  stamping  of  weight  certificates,  the 
form  of  which  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Weights  and  Measures;  requires  public  weigh  masters  to 
keep  and  preserve  accurate  records  of  public  weighing,  which 
shall  be  noted  on  the  certificates;  violations  are  declared  a  mis- 
demeanor. In  cases  of  difference  over  correctness  of  net  or 
gross  weight,  for  which  a  certificate  has  been  issued,  the 
person  questioning  the  weight  may  have  the  articles  reweighed 
by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Weights  and  Measures  or  a 
public  weigh  master  designated  by  him  upon  deposit  of  a  sum 


324  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

sufficient  to  defray  the  actual  cost  of  the  reweighing.  All  lots, 
shipments  or  consignments,  after  having  been  weighed,  shall 
be  piled  or  stored  separately  in  order  that  they  may  be  read- 
ily  distinguished   from   others   of   the   same  kind. 

S.  B.  227.  Tyrrell.  Relating  to  persons  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  public  weighing  for  hire,  and  prescribing  for  such  a 
bond  and  fixing  the  amount  thereof;  regulating  fees  to  be 
collected  for  such  service;  a  certificate  and  the  form  thereof; 
defining  the  duties  of  public  weightmasters  and  providing  pen- 
alties for  violations  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

S.  B.  667.  Tyrrell.  Amending  Sections  2,  3,  12,  16  and  17 
of  an  Act,  approved  June  16,  1913,  known  as  the  "Weights 
and  Measures  Act". 

WOMEN    AND    CHILDREN. 

A.  B.  729.  Wright.  To  establish  a  detention  home  for 
women,  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  and  management 
thereof,    and    appropriating   money   therefor. 

Provides  for  the  purchase  of  a  site  and  the  erection  of 
necessary  buildings,  the  appointment  by  the  Governor  of  a 
board  of  three  trustees  to  govern  the  proposed  institution  and 
the  employment  of  a  matron  and  other  attaches.  The  salary 
of  the  matron  is  not  fixed,  but  the  compensation  of  the  secre- 
tary  is   fixed   at   $1500   a   year. 

The  amount  of  money  to  be  appropriated  to  carry  out  the 
provisions  of  the  Act  is  to  be  determined  by  the  ways  and 
means  committee. 

It  is  made  incumbent  upon  magistrates  to  sentence  women 
who  are  guilty  of  violating  the  redlight  abatement  law  to  the 
home  for  terms  not  to  exceed  ten  years.  During  the  time  the 
women  are  confined  they  will  be  clothed  and  fed  by  the  State. 

S.  B.  954.  Amending  Sections  8,  11  and  12  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved May  26,  1913,  regulating  the  employment  of  women 
and  minors  and  establishing  an  Industrial  Welfare  Commis- 
sion to  investigate  and  deal  with  such  employment,  including 
a  minimum  wage;  providing  for  an  appropriation  therefor  and 
fixing  a  penalty  for  violations  of  this  Act. 

Provides  (Sec.  8)  for  a  special  license  for  an  apprentice 
or  learner  at  a  wage  less  than  the  legal  minimum  wage,  to 
be  fixed  by  the  commission;  also  (Sec.  11)  adds  a  penalty  for 
violation,  refusal  or  neglect  to  comply  with  provisions  of  Act 
or  any  orders  or  rulings  of  commission,  by  making  it  a  mis- 
demeanor so  to  do,  punishable  by  fine  of  not  less  than  $50  or 
by  imprisonment  not  less  than  30  days,  or  both;  also  (Sec.  12) 
includes  with  the  maximum  wage,  "the  maximum  hours  of 
Work  and  the  standard  conditions  of  labor  fixed  by  the  Com- 
mission" to  be  taken  prima  facie  to  be  reasonable,  in  prosecu- 
tions under  this  Act. 


FENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915.  325 

WORKMEN'S    COMPENSATION    ACT. 

A.  B.  1025.  Godsil.  Amending  Section  2  of  an  Act  approved 
May  26,  1913,  to  promote  the  general  welfare  of  the  people  of 
this  State  as  affected  by  accident  causing  the  injury  or  death 
of  employes  in  the  course  of  their  employment,  by  creating  a 
liability  on  the  part  of  employers  to  compensate  such  employes 
and  their  dependents  for  such  accidental  injury  or  death  ir- 
respective of  the  fault  of  either  party,  etc.,  relating  to  defini- 
nitions  of  certain  terms. 

S.  B.  510.  Benson.  Amending  Sections  2,  12,  13,  15,  16,  17, 
19,  20,  22,  24,  25,  26,  29,  30,  31,  32,  33,  34,  36,  37,  46,  47,  57,  71, 
72,  75,  76,  77  and  81  of  an  Act  approved  May  26,  1913,  to  pro- 
mote the  general  welfare  of  the  people  of  this  State  as  affected 
by  accident  causing  the  injury  or  death  of  employees  in  the 
course  of  their  employment,  by  creating  a  liability  on  the  part 
of  employers  to  compensate  such  employees  and  their  depend- 
ents for  such  accidental  injury  or  death  irrespective  of  the 
fault  of  either  party,  and  providing  the  means  and  methods 
of  enforcing  such  liability;  and  creating  a  "State  compensation 
insurance  fund"  to  insure  employers  against  such  liability  and 
providing  for  its  administration  and  regulating  such  insurance 
by  other  insurance  carriers;  and  requiring  safety  in  all  em- 
ployments and  places  of  employment  in  this  State  and  pro- 
viding the  means  and  methods  of  enforcing  such  safety;  and 
requiring  reports  of  industrial  accidents;  and  providing  penal- 
ties for  offenses  by  employers,  their  officers,  agents,  and  by 
employees  and  other  persons  and  corporations;  and  creating  an 
industrial  accident  commission,  providing  for  its  organization, 
defining  its  powers  and  duties  and  providing  for  a  review  of 
its  orders,  decisions  and  awards;  and  appropriating  moneys  to 
carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  Act;  and  repealing  all  Acts 
and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act, 
and  adding  thereto  a  new  section  to  be  numbered  75a,  con- 
ferring jurisdiction  on  the  commission  over  all  controversies 
arising  out  of  injuries  suffered  without  the  State  in  cases 
where  injured  employee  is  resident  of  this  State  at  time  of 
injury  and  contract  of  hire  was  made  in  this  State. 

S.  B.  800.  Flaherty.  Amending  Sections  12,  14,  15,  49  and 
50  of  the  Act,  approved  May  26,  1913,  and  designated  as  the 
"Workmen's   Compensation,    Insurance   and    Safety  Act". 

A.   B.   849.     Harris.     Identical  with   S.    B.   800.     Flaherty. 

A.  B.  791.  Rutherford.  Amending  Section  15  of  an  Act 
approved  May  21,  1913,  to  promote  the  general  welfare  of  the 
people  of  this  State  as  affected  by  accident  causing  the  injury 
or  death  of  employees  in  the  course  of  their  employment  by 
creating  a  liability  on  the  part  of'  employers  to  compensate 
such  employees,  etc.,  relating  to  what  compensation  shall  be 
furnished  or  paid  by  the  employer. 


326  PENDING    LEGISLATION,  1915. 

S.  B.  898.     Birdsall.     Identical  with  A.  B.  791.     Rutherford. 

S.  B.  807.  Thompson.  Amending  Section  40  of  an  Act,  ap- 
proved May  26,  1913,  to  promote  the  general  welfare  of  the 
people  of  this  State  as  affected  by  accident  causing  the  injury 
or  death  of  employees  in  the  course  of  their  employment,  by 
creating  a  liability  on  the  part  of  .employers  to  compensate 
such  employees  and  their  dependents  for  such  accidental  in- 
jury or  death  irrespective  of  the  fault  of  either  party,  and 
providing  the  means  and  methods  of  enforcing  such  liability; 
and  creating  a  "State  compensation  insurance  fund"  to  insure 
employers  against  such  liability  and  providing  for  its  admin- 
istration and  regulating  such  insurance  by  other  insurance  car- 
riers; and  requiring  safety  in  all  employments  and  places  of 
employment  in  this  State  and  providing  the  means  and  methods 
of  enforcing  such  safety;  and  requiring  reports  of  industrial 
accidents;  and  providing  penalties  for  offenses  by  employers, 
their  officers,  agents,  and  by  employees  and  other  persons  and 
corporations;  and  creating  an  industrial  accident  commission, 
providing  for  its  organization,  denning  its  powers  and  duties 
and  providing  for  a  review  of  its  orders,  decisions  and  awards; 
and  appropriating  moneys  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this 
Act;  and  repealing  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

A.  B.  900.     Meek.     Identical  with  S.  B.  807.     Thompson. 


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